They _had_ their own datacenters, and decided to move their control plane to the cloud (AWS) to avoid having to run the those datacenters themselves. https://m

They _had_ their own datacenters, and decided to move their control plane to the cloud (AWS) to avoid having to run the those datacenters themselves. https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-netflix-cloud-migration https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net... This was a big deal in 2008 :) (Maybe there's an even bigger size where it no longer makes sense for them to outsource this, but bidding GCP and AWS against each other seems like a reasonable strategy for their use-case).