Re:You Are Not Google (2017)
by scarface74 on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:45AM
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So what do you think AWS services are running on if not Linux?
Netflix is by far AWSs largest customer.
From the horses mouth on why they decided to move to AWS:
https://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcrof...
You could also go to YouTube and watch any of the dozens of talks NetFlix has done at ReInvent.
Of course Netflix caches it’s videos in the ISPs data center. But caching is not the “heavy lifting”.
Netflix does NOT use aws for their meat and potatoes streaming, just the housekeeping. They use OWS for the heavy lifting.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/netflix-is-not-...
But re: maintaining hardware, I only maintain my dev box these days. We are fine with hosted linux services, but backup/monitoring/updating is just too trivial, and the hosting so affordable (and predictable) w/linux it would have to be a hype/marketing/nepotic decision to switch to aws in our case. The internet is still built on a backbone and run by linux, any programmer would be foolhardy to ignore that bit of reality for very long.