I personally haven't seen any massive price breaks, but there definitely is room the margins.
For example, this Ryzen laptop: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-...
It was occurring at a time when AMD was fairly firmly beating Intel on a straight $/performance basis (~K6 era). If Dell had started shipping AMD based systems back then it could have been a big game changer.
The general narrative around the tech press at the time was that Intel knew this and were desperate to keep Dell as Intel exclusive.
Some of our stuff dynamically utilizes other CDNs. A customer might go try and test deploy something and we might use (AWS or whatever) to do it.
It's CDNs all the way down.
We the whole stack for most people, but also run our software on "private cdns" for some. We primarily target devs: https://fly.io
We should rename our product "Infinite Regress" ;-)
It would also require an architecture that supports multiple interfaces. Totally doable (the facade pattern comes to mind) but you'd want to calculate the TCO to see it works out financially.
I've seen too many companies turn extractive (including, of course, that same Microsoft) to ever use the words "final" next to "platform decision".
AWS managed services literally sit behind billions of devices, a scale that makes Netflix look small in comparison: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google...
It was used in this manner by Charles Dickens, James Joyce and American authors as well.
Although, it pisses me off when I hear it used that way.
just wondering, how huge (as a percentage) that discount is?
"We have $500M available this year that we can spend to lock in $1B in revenue. If you give us $1B in revenue, we would spend $500M on helping you to achieve your objectives. If you give us $100M in revenue, we give spend $50M in helping you to achieve your objectives"
So say I need to spend $10M on some project and I am looking at $20M of spend on hosting. You are offering me 10M CAF. I spend $20M on hosting, and 0 on some other project - instead you spend your 10M CAF on helping me with my project, which of course looks really good on my books.
I'm guessing there's some project getting underway to move/duplicate some subset of resources hosted in AWS on GCP. It's likely a huge project that dwarfs most corporations entire cloud presence, but I'm guessing for Netflix it's a small piece of a giant puzzle, and that the vast majority of their operations are still centered at AWS and will be for years and years to come.