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by kovyrin 4107 days ago
If only it were that simple... But every second relatively young engineer I interview points out that "But Netflix! Look how good the cloud works for them!" and once again I need to explain, that Netflix spends millions in engineering resources cost to handle EC2 issues and we are not (almost nobody is) Netflix (yet?).
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Netflix also runs many of their own servers, and puts their own racks into many data centers.

https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html

https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/peeringLocations/index.h...

Amazon also runs Netflix racks
Oh thank goodness. I thought I was the only one.