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I can see their thought process— "Netflix will most likely exist even if we don't provide them server services as there exist other cloud providers and / or Ne
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
I can see their thought process—
"Netflix will most likely exist even if we don't provide them server services as there exist other cloud providers and / or Netflix is big enough to roll their own, so we might as well have a piece of our competitor's success by having their infra spend come to us."
- sjg007 9y agoNetflix absolutely should roll their own system. At the very least as a meta layer on top of the major cloud providers.
- ojbyrne 9y agoWhy do you think they don't?
- ghaff 9y agoSo Netflix now needs to hire and manage a huge infrastructure team that they don't have today. (Not to say they don't have ops folks but the incremental need would be enormous.) That's not to say it might not be a worthwhile approach over the long run but it would be a huge strategic investment in something that has essentially nothing to do with what they view as their core differentiating service to customers. Would Netflix have done things differently if they had known they'd reach this level of usage? Perhaps. But disentangling now would be very difficult and almost certainly disruptive--including a likely reduction in quality of service.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoTheir infrastructure team + infrastructure would be cheaper then their Amazon spend, guaranteed (based on known Amazon margins). And disentangling be disruptive? Stand up your new datacenter and shift your apps over with DNS when they're ready to serve production traffic. If you can move traffic between regions, you can move it between on prem and cloud.
- puzzle 9y agoYou assume that Netflix pays retail price.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI don't. I assume a deep discount because Amazon uses them as a shining case study, despite only their control plane/front end hosted with AWS.
- memoryhole 9y agoWe have, and we open sourced it :) https://www.spinnaker.io/ https://www.spinnaker.io/ Here is a blog post (2010) describing the decision to move out of our own data centers: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/four-reasons-we-choose-amazons-cloud-as-our-computing-platform-4aceb692afec https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/four-reasons-we-choose-a...
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- GhostVII 9y agoI'm pretty sure they do a lot of their own stuff, AFAIK, they run their own CDN, and then use AWS for everything else.
- ksec 9y agoTo me, the most important part of Netflix isn't the encoding or compute parts, ( AWS ), but the delivery. And all of their delivery, networks are already done by themselves through Open Connect and OP Server. So they already have their own system. As as some below have mentioned, they could simply move to Azure if they wanted without much trouble.