[mandeepj]

I think it already paid off. She on-boarded Snap, Apple and Netflix

Edit - I am impressed with Diane Greene. She donated all of her take from acquisition of her company - http://www.businessinsider.com/diane-green-donates-150m-to-c...

[verst]

Correction: She didn't onboard Snap.

Maybe you meant Spotify?

Source: I worked with Snap when I was on the Google Cloud Platform team in 2012/2013.

[illumin8]

She got them to sign a significant multi-year $1B+ commitment - if that isn't a win, I don't know what is.

[raverbashing]

How do you spend 1Bi in hosting costs? That's mind-blowing

[jldugger]

Well, first you sign a multiyear agreement. Lets call it 5 years. Now you only need to find a way to spend $200m a year on a service that purports to discard your videos pretty damn fast.

How do you do that? I figure a mix of bandwidth, storage, and personal targeting ad-tech. Most folks using cloud vendors are upset at the outbound traffic cost, so that probably costs a pretty penny. Especially when CDN and caching layers are pointless.

[bilbo0s]

Does Netflix use Google Cloud? Or do they just support it with Security Monkey?

[tylerlh]

The majority of Netflix infrastructure runs on AWS, sans content delivery AFAIK.

The transition to AWS was completed a little over a year ago and took several years to do.[0]

[0]: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net...

[Zach_the_Lizard]

I thought Netflix was mostly or exclusively in AWS. Could certainly be wrong though.

[kahnpro]

Pretty sure they don't serve the actual video from AWS.

And now considering the competition from Amazon Prime, I doubt it will move there in the future.