Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by onlyrealcuzzo on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:56AM
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True.
Scaling to - say - Paramount+ size should not be difficult if you're willing to pay AWS / Azure / GCP 10-100x what it would cost to serve it yourself (which in many cases actually makes sense).
It's possible at Netflix's size, they couldn't just run on AWS anymore. Though, given enough lead time and a realistic growth curve - I'm sure it's feasible.
Obviously scaling manufacturing is not a solved problem like (realistically) scaling network and compute usage.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by yibg on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:38PM
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Serving Netflix streaming traffic from AWS would be… unwise. One the bandwidth cost would be enormous even if they can handle it. And two I doubt they can handle that much traffic.
Scaling to - say - Paramount+ size should not be difficult if you're willing to pay AWS / Azure / GCP 10-100x what it would cost to serve it yourself (which in many cases actually makes sense).
It's possible at Netflix's size, they couldn't just run on AWS anymore. Though, given enough lead time and a realistic growth curve - I'm sure it's feasible.
Obviously scaling manufacturing is not a solved problem like (realistically) scaling network and compute usage.