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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by umanwizard on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:42PM (#31102733)
FAANG doesn't need to use cloud either. Notably, Facebook doesn't (and, a bunch of stuff at Amazon was still not on cloud until _long_ after AWS was invented).
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:49PM (#31102824)
Facebook doesn't use the cloud? Are you crazy? They built their own cloud. They just don't sell it as a service.

Sure - not everything at these companies needs to be on the cloud. But when you're dealing with sensitive information, you don't want people rolling their own infrastructure.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by jjeaff on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:31PM (#31103289)
Is it really cloud if you built it yourself and run it on your own hardware in your own data center?
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by icedchai on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:44PM (#31104501)
Certainly! I joke that I have my own private cloud: I have a k8s cluster running on 6 machines in my closet datacenter.
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by vineyardmike on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:07PM (#31113089)
When you're one of the largest data center owners in the world, its pretty close? Its not like they're colo'ing? How do you define cloud?
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by humantorso on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:06PM (#31104208)
Yes! the fact you are asking this belies your understanding of the cloud.
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by umanwizard on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:55PM (#31105273)
Can you elaborate on what your understanding of the term is?
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by jjeaff on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:53AM (#31106130)
Well then I guess everyone is actually already in the cloud. They just have varying levels of UI/UX.
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by imwillofficial on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:59PM (#31104150)
Yes. A private cloud due to the tech stack at work.
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by firsttracks on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:30PM (#31103287)
At the end of 2021 Facebook announced they would begin to use more AWS services [0]. Now, I wouldn’t call it Facebook going full cloud and I definitely expect FB to continue to use on-prem for the majority of their compute/storage; but I think it’s worthwhile to note that even FB (which may be one of the largest private clouds) sees value in using cloud providers to supplement their on-prem solutions.

[0] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by jenny91 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:27PM (#31103896)
This is some peripheral or business continuity-type stuff. FB will obviously not move any of their critical stuff there.
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by iamtedd on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:33PM (#31103941)
Isn't Netflix 100% on AWS?
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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by xuki on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:24PM (#31104355)
IIRC Netflix run their own boxes for content delivery, which makes sense because of the exorbitant cost of bandwidth on AWS.
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