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I seriously doubt Netflix wouldn't find some way to rapidly move to some alternative if AWS were to disappear. But by all means correct me if I'm wrong!
by mercer 10y ago
I seriously doubt Netflix wouldn't find some way to rapidly move to some alternative if AWS were to disappear. But by all means correct me if I'm wrong!
- gfo 10y agoAgreed. If they go as far as randomly disabling AWS nodes to test their own resilience I'd be shocked if they didn't have some sort of contingency for if AWS went completely belly-up. Who knows, they could even have Azure nodes on standby in case AWS in its entirety went down?
- sitkack 10y agoEveryone should have a cloud provider total-outtage strategy. You should atleast control the ability to move DNS if everything in said cloud provider is out.
- qaq 10y agoYou seriously think there is a provider somewhere sitting on 20 empty datacenters with all the hardware procured and hooked up just waiting on an off chance Netflix might switch?
- cgio 10y agoI don't think the AWS datacenters would disappear in thin air either.
- qaq 10y agoWell neither would warehouses and other infrastructure they built but that was not the premise that is being discussed.
- brianwawok 10y agoYou realize most of Netflix is not in AWS right?
- qaq 10y agoYou realize that netflix is using up over 20% of aws capacity and as cool as having your own cdn is there is not much purpose in it without the part that runs on AWS.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThe part that runs in AWS could just as easily run on bare metal. Stack Overflow does it, Backblaze does it, Github does it; I'm so disappointed in this tired trite that your a special snowflake running in AWS.
- qaq 10y agoYes it would run even better but it would take a few years to do the buildout.
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- manquer 10y agoNothing is going disappear overnight.. AWS iaas services are commodity and not something so unique that are not replaceable with products from other cloud vendors
- qaq 10y agoAt Netflix scale they are not replaceable by other vendors because other vendors do not have enough capacity to accommodate Netflix migration.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoCan you provide information as to how much capacity Netflix would need to migrate? Otherwise, this comment has no basis in reality.
- justicezyx 10y agoWell, your question is not uncommon for people having little experiences developing and operating large distributed systems. But I can guarantee you, if Netflix can, they already did, so to make them in a position better negotiate price with AWS.