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A comment on Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III. Parent comment

Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III by justinmk on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:44PM (#12206947)
It is not a secret, it has been addressed in at least one talk by Netflix a head[1].

> Cloud features and APIs should be a commodity not a differentiator

> ...

> We would prefer to be an insignificant customer in a giant cloud.

[1] https://justinmk.github.io/jmk/selfish-cooperation

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Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III by 2bitencryption on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:20AM (#12208310)
"insignificant customer in a giant cloud"

it makes me wonder if Netflix gets any "special deals" that any other corporation/consumer couldn't get, or if anything has been done at the hardware level specifically for Netflix.

I.e., I wonder if they ended up building a data center that they would have needed anyway, but made it the "Netflix datacenter," even if no one else would ever know it.

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