[hueving]

Netflix had to go through a massive engineering effort to make their system reliable enough to work on AWS. If they knew what it would take in human and capital investment, they may have chosen to build their own datacenter.

[onion2k]

Netflix did have their own data centres. They moved to Amazon to get away from having them.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/netf...

[eva1984]

Really? I thought they shutdown their last home-made datacenter just recently.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/netfli...