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Surely Netflix pays only a small fraction of list price for AWS. I wonder how that reduced price might influence the technical advice from Netflix.
by quiffledwerg 5y ago
Surely Netflix pays only a small fraction of list price for AWS.
I wonder how that reduced price might influence the technical advice from Netflix.
- quiffledwerg 5y agoFurther to this …. following the technical advice of Netflix on AWS may well bankrupt you given how low Netflix pays for AWS. I wouldn’t be racing to emulate the way they do things.
- maltalex 5y ago> I wouldn’t be racing to emulate the way they do things. Netflix or not, emulating how someone else conducts their business without a firm understanding of the underlying reasons is often a bad idea.
- WatchDog 5y agoI imagine most medium to large enterprises using AWS have some discount, especially if you are operating at the kinds of scale that this article deals in.