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I'm surprised they have thought to move some of their infrastructure in house. The clearly have the scale where this would make sense, but it may be that AWS a
by bhouston 9y ago
I'm surprised they have thought to move some of their infrastructure in house. The clearly have the scale where this would make sense, but it may be that AWS and GCP provide them with such low special prices that it doesn't make sense...
- rockostrich 9y agoTheir CDN is in-house [1]. They use cloud services for general computing. [1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-with-isps-around-the-globe-to-deliver-a-great-viewing-experience https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
- diminoten 9y agoThe problem might just be that it's genuinely incredibly difficult to get infrastructure right at this level, and the cost to move in-house is still too high, even accounting for the savings over the long term.