I have a few questions, a lot of things went above my head in this of course but here are my questions. 1. When Netflix is using these specialized NICs, doesn't Netflix use AWS, so would that mean that they can add their own specialized hardware in AWS DC's (so is it co-location?) or does AWS natively support these NIC's 2. Considering this is Netflix whose whole architecture is to optimize for Videos, is this the co…
Control plane vs data plane. The control plane is a heap of java and some python ran in AWS. The data plane is bare metal FreeBSD servers with hardware tuned to certain parameters, usually a capacity tier and a flash tier, and sometimes a cost tier for smaller regions.