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Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure buil
by lnz_me 6mo ago
Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure built by volunteers like Colin
- tiffanyh 6mo agoI don’t think they do. Netflix uses FreeBSD specifically for their custom-built CDN/streaming servers, which are hosted directly with ISPs … not on AWS. Their user-facing catalog app, however, runs on Ubuntu servers hosted on AWS. At least that’s what I recall reading here on HN.
- cperciva 6mo agoYes, that's correct. They're not idiots and realize that spinning up FreeBSD instances in EC2 can be very useful for development purposes -- the largest EC2 instances can run a buildworld very very fast -- but they have no need for FreeBSD/EC2 for their production workloads.