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by pclmulqdq
1217 days ago
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Are you sure that they will dramatically increase infrastructure costs? Large companies get amazing deals from clouds, and this is no exception to that rule. Their infrastructure costs might actually decrease because the clouds will have to compete for their business. |
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Maybe theoretically possible but I have doubts.
As Youtube's founding was February 2005, they now have 18 years (i.e. exabytes) of videos stored on Google's datacenters. Exporting all that to a competitor like AWS (even with mass Snowmobile transfer service) probably wouldn't make financial sense.
I worked on a corporate spin-out from a petroleum company and there was months of back & forth negotiation for "IT infrastructure services pricing" from the ex-parent company. The new spin out company was definitely not getting a deal from the ex-parent company and switching to other datacenter competitors wasn't realistic because the ex-parent already had all the data and the existing IT staff expertise to run-&-maintain the spin-off's proprietary systems. (E.g. think Lotus Notes custom programming workflows).
Google could realistically raise their infrastructure prices to an independent Youtube spinoff but that higher cost is still less than switching to Azure or AWS.