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Is it just me, or is it a massive risk to have your entire infrastructure hosted by a company who is also one of your chief competitors?
On the other hand, if they rely on lots of proprietary AWS tools, then that seems like a dangerous place to be.
Great story, brah. Except for the CDN. https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/
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You'd be surprised at what a good job the individual pieces of Amazon's empire do at operating as individual units as far as competition is concerned. It would be VERY bad business to "screw" an AWS customer because they competed with some other part of the organization as a whole. Given that Amazon operates in so many spaces and could potentially expand to any space, this behavior would effectively make AWS unappeal…
I'd like to believe this, but then I can't buy an Apple TV through Amazon because of some petty dispute over Prime Video (which I really don't care about). So if Amazon the store can pull products to try to protect prime video, then how can I be sure that other units won't?
Is Netflix at the top end of some curve? My understanding of moving from cloud -> datacenter is, you know, there is some line where it's cheaper to just lease your hardware than pay for cloud infrastructure. At that size you tend to have DBAs, dedicated infrastructure people, etc., to make scaling up go. But now has Netflix come through that line where the cost savings is outweighed by the uptime/availability etc.?
They need to spike for prime time and then don't really need much infrastructure.
Great story, brah. Except for the CDN. https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/
Wasn't familiar with OpenConnect. It is the program where Netflix puts a caching server in an ISP's datacenter so that the traffic is more "local" and cheaper for all involved.
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false. http://www.business-management-degree.net/features/amazon-vs...
That infographic isn't very clear. It's hard to separate the impact of Prime Video from Prime and from normal Amazon operations. How many people buy Amazon Prime for the video streaming? What percentage of the $800M Prime revenue is attributable to the video service? I'd wager less than 10%. Does Netflix spend more than $80M a year on AWS? The numbers needed to answer the question aren't publicly available. It's a bu…
They spent $1.3B on "General/Administrative Expenses" last year - think more than 6% of that was infrastructure?
Is it just me, or is it a massive risk to have your entire infrastructure hosted by a company who is also one of your chief competitors?
Is Netflix at the top end of some curve? My understanding of moving from cloud -> datacenter is, you know, there is some line where it's cheaper to just lease your hardware than pay for cloud infrastructure. At that size you tend to have DBAs, dedicated infrastructure people, etc., to make scaling up go. But now has Netflix come through that line where the cost savings is outweighed by the uptime/availability etc.?
They do have discounted pricing, and they get the agility to add a new region overnite.
Is it just me, or is it a massive risk to have your entire infrastructure hosted by a company who is also one of your chief competitors?
What about Heroku, then? They are on AWS, and compete with AWS.