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I was wondering about that. Open Connect was significant in the disagreement between Netflix and Comcast that spurred the net neutrality debate. Unless I'm mist
by whoopdedo 11y ago
I was wondering about that. Open Connect was significant in the disagreement between Netflix and Comcast that spurred the net neutrality debate. Unless I'm mistaken Netflix ended up agreeing to the peering fees, though after negotiating down a bit. So does using AWS for mundane traffic actually save them money by avoiding the CDN bandwidth that Netflix has to pay ISPs to use?
- wmf 11y agoAFAIK Amazon charges more for bandwidth than the greediest ISP, but I admit I haven't looked at the EB/month transfer tier.
- skuhn 11y agoThere's literally no way to operate a CDN-like service from AWS; no matter what discount you get from Amazon, you're paying per-byte instead of 95th percentile billing and settlement-free peering.