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I thought Netflix has slowly been moving stuff to their own data centers as they grow and has distanced themselves from AWS on more critical stuff?
by djsumdog 7y ago
I thought Netflix has slowly been moving stuff to their own data centers as they grow and has distanced themselves from AWS on more critical stuff?
- secabeen 7y agoNetflix still uses AWS for much of their support systems (billing, discovery, etc. etc.) The core business of delivering video is not on AWS and has never been. That runs on their in-house CDN, OpenConnect.
- notyourwork 7y ago> and has never been I believe this is inaccurate, Netflix was streaming from AWS in their early years IIRC.
- supermanfan 7y agoI have worked at Netflix. The history is that mainly they used well-known CDNs for streaming, followed by their OpenConnect CDN network now. AWS has always been used for metadata. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ I'm not aware of them streaming from AWS, though it's possible a development group there did a test or something temporarily.
- echelon 7y ago> distanced themselves from AWS on more critical stuff? Can someone familiar with Netflix speak to this? It makes sense that they'll continue to run stuff in AWS due to their existing footprint, but are they mandated to build new stuff outside the cloud? And if so, why?
- cthalupa 7y agoThis seems unlikely - Netflix just finished their migration to AWS in 2016 after 7 years and has been quite public about it, and always has a major presence at re:invent, etc. https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-netflix-cloud-migration https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net... They've never used AWS for their CDN.
- numlock86 7y agoIIRC it is the other way around. They had much larger data centers but migrate more and more to AWS because of the stereotypical "on-premise vs cloud in large company"-reasons.