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>That excess compute is essentially free. Since they host on AWS, wouldn't they just scale down during non-peak times and save money?
by ktta 8y ago
>That excess compute is essentially free.
Since they host on AWS, wouldn't they just scale down during non-peak times and save money?
- majewsky 8y agoThe AWS-hosted part is not the CDN afaik, which will probably make up the vast majority of their infrastructure.
- ktta 8y agoIf you're talking about OpenConnect, then I think they are really geared to just be a CDN and not much else.
- walrus01 8y agoSpeaking as an ISP: Netflix traffic comes from the Netflix ASN and peering session. Their globally distributed CDN/caching/video file storage servers are not on AWS to the best of my knowledge. Netflix traffic does not come from our peering with Amazon's ASN.
- svachalek 8y agoThey do, but as any large AWS customer you want to reserve a lot of capacity, so that it's there when you need it and also it's a lot cheaper than spot usage. So, scaling down below the reserved capacity doesn't save you much if anything.
- Tarq0n 8y agoNetflix has an internal spot market for compute, letting them use their reserved instances somewhat optimally.