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Netflix is a counterpoint? A good fraction (though not majority probably) of their cost is probably bandwidth and computation yet they continue to offload that
by ramraj07 6y ago
Netflix is a counterpoint? A good fraction (though not majority probably) of their cost is probably bandwidth and computation yet they continue to offload that to a cloud provider, who's a direct competitor no less.
- nopzor 6y agonetflix does not serve their bits over amazon. they have their own major infra, and operate a large and distributed cdn, including edge caches colocated within eyeball networks. it would be insane for them to deliver their video content over aws.
- Groxx 6y agoNetflix plays both sides rather strongly, e.g. they run some of their hardware in your isp's buildings: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ By some measures, that's much more extreme than running your own datacenter.
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- gtsteve 6y agoNetflix does run their own CDN for video content, presumably to avoid that exact problem. I would imagine that's by far the most expensive part of their business.