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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by bsimpson on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:57AM (#11085577)
Considering the bills I've seen for AWS at even modestly-sized companies, I would not be surprised if Netflix spends more than $80M a year on AWS. In fact, considering the amount of bandwidth they use, I'd be surprised if they didn't.

They spent $1.3B on "General/Administrative Expenses" last year - think more than 6% of that was infrastructure?

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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by vidarh on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:21AM (#11086095)
Quite possibly, but also keep in mind that there's no way Netflix pays anywhere remotely near AWS published prices. I'd be surprised if they pay even 1/5th of the published prices.

Especially on bandwidth, anyone can buy bandwidth at well below 20% of AWS prices elsewhere. Netflix shouldn't be paying even 10% of published AWS bandwidth prices given their volumes.

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Re:Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastr... by true_religion on Friday February 12, 2016 @09:04AM (#11087181)
Most of Netflix's bandwidth goes through their Open Connect CDN, which isn't hosted on Amazon's infrastructure but is rather a traditional setup of colocated servers in strategically positioned data centers.

Previous to this arrangement Netflix used 3rd party CDNs like Akamai which again did not sit on Amazon's infrastructure.

That said I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any assessment of how much Amazon costs are.

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