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AWS gains is like a bell curve, the value is highest in the middle. If you're very small, you probably don't need it, and DigitalOcean without surprise costs sh
by segmondy 6y ago
AWS gains is like a bell curve, the value is highest in the middle. If you're very small, you probably don't need it, and DigitalOcean without surprise costs should do. When you start getting large enough, AWS starts paying off, as you get really huge, then it might be cheaper to colocate and hire your own admins. However, I think Netflix shows you can't be too big tho for AWS. Their hybrid approach is probably best. Run on AWS/GCP for things that you just can't afford to fail, then move your non critical workload to colocation.
- mekster 6y agoPlaces like netflix wants to put liability off its shoulders and wants someone to blame at. Very different demand than most.
- segmondy 6y agoI don't buy that, liability to who? If Netflix goes down, I'm gonna cry and tweet about it, I'm not going to cancel my account. Their catalog is unmatched. colocating across the world is not easy, they also have scale that goes up and down based on time of day, and say holidays where they really need to scale up. Cloud is great for that, the elastic part is great, place the core on there and scale up and down as needed. What they did with active-active resiliency and being able to shift traffic across regions is the entire point of cloud, as we some a bunch of services where down last week with AWS having issue but netflix never skips a beat on such issues.
- mekster 6y agoI don't mean they'll make excuses toward customers but say they can simply blame AWS toward content providers when something happens to the infrastructure instead of begging them to wait while they prepare for a damage report on their custom infrastructure.