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The orignal author mentioned how good AWS worked for netflix, but did not mention that netflix rolled their own content delivery system in part because of high

The orignal author mentioned how good AWS worked for netflix, but did not mention that netflix rolled their own content delivery system in part because of high traffic cost with all the major cloud providers.

snarf21 8y ago
Exactly, AWS is perfect for running the search and UI features but you have to have the content at the edge or get killed on bandwidth.
kemitche 8y ago
He did mention that about netflix: https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/1102410173203660800 https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/11024101732036608... > E.g. if you are +30% of the internet traffic (nflx) it doesn't make sense to pay rent to telcos any more and feed their margins. You have the volume and stable demand to justify ownership. For the rest, cloud is where they'll live and die.
drewg123 8y ago
My understanding is that most commercial CDNs (Limelight, Akamai, etc) are also more cost-effective than serving directly from AWS. However, commercial CDNs don't know a-priori what files are going to be popular, and how to distribute them in different regions and on different types of storage to maximize efficiency. But that's one of the things that Netflix's CDN team can predict. See https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/distributing-content-to-open-connect-3e3e391d4dc9 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/distributing-content-to-...