Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by sokoloff on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:20AM
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Netflix does not push their videos streams out of AWS (because that would be stratospherically unaffordable for them). They run their apps and systems on the cloud (search and preferences), but the video bits come from Netflix racks distributed to a variety of DCs and ISPs.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by twic on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:23AM
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> IMHO if you ow your software stack, you can use the cloud to rationalize your spending (for instance, Netflix changed their default codec some weeks ago which made them save a lot of monet in egress bandwith)... but nobody can do this.
Netflix's content serving is done from physical hardware they own and place in datacentres. I don't understand your point.
Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by gwd on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:42AM
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> Some vendors are even offering hardware as Opex in a pay-as-you-go seting to compete against the cloud.
Isn't that how IBM ran their mainframe business 50 years ago? The more things change...
I would say also, the cloud is cheap if you can shut down or scale-down services when you need it.
IMHO if you ow your software stack, you can use the cloud to rationalize your spending (for instance, Netflix changed their default codec some weeks ago which made them save a lot of monet in egress bandwith)... but nobody can do this.
If your company runs prepackaged software, like an SAP, Manhattan, you don't have margin to shutdown services when they're not needed (at least by now).
Also, after a long time working in a datacenter, I am still ashamed how powerful bare-metal has become: For less than 30K you can get a 1TB server (without storage) with at least 40 cores. Some vendors are even offering hardware as Opex in a pay-as-you-go seting to compete against the cloud.
(disclaimer I work for a Google Cloud partner)