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This is indeed an interesting post but it doesn't answer the question why they chose Amazon. It focuses on why they chose not to expand within their own datacen

by somic 16y ago

This is indeed an interesting post but it doesn't answer the question why they chose Amazon. It focuses on why they chose not to expand within their own datacenter.

jeremyjarvis 16y ago
Agreed, I was interested to see which of Amazon's features were particularly of use to them. As opposed to, say, Rackspace Cloud.
- somic 16y ago
  This talk by @adrianco may address the points you were looking for - http://www.blip.tv/file/4252897 http://www.blip.tv/file/4252897 To sum up, Netflix's strategy is to go with the best and biggest in each category, and AWS is obviously the biggest as of now.
  - brown9-2 16y ago
    If anyone is interested slides from that talk are here: http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-on-cloud-combined-slides-for-dev-and-ops http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-on-cloud-combined...
pchristensen 16y ago
Who would be a viable alternative vendor to Amazon at Netflix's scale?
- sgk284 16y ago
  Rackspace?