> Netflix has elastic demands that are negatively correlated with other users. No, that's not what is going on with Netflix and AWS. Netflix stores metadata i

> Netflix has elastic demands that are negatively correlated with other users. No, that's not what is going on with Netflix and AWS. Netflix stores metadata in AWS, and uses their OpenCDN for streaming traffic. The metadata servers can autoscale, but not enough to call it elastic since it's not correlated with end-user requests. > Netflix is as equipped as anyone to manage their own data center. They don't think so, which is why after a 5-day outage they moved to AWS in the first place. At a high level, you're wrong by 180 degrees. I'm guessing you thought Econ 101 can be applied anywhere, a common but wrong-headed fallacy by HN'ers. Source: worked at Netflix.