20 years on AWS and never not my job

Re:20 years on AWS and never not my job by lnz_me on Saturday April 11, 2026 @07:26AM (#47729645)

Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure built by volunteers like Colin

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Re:20 years on AWS and never not my job by tiffanyh on Saturday April 11, 2026 @09:05AM (#47730224)

I don’t think they do.

Netflix uses FreeBSD specifically for their custom-built CDN/streaming servers, which are hosted directly with ISPs … not on AWS. Their user-facing catalog app, however, runs on Ubuntu servers hosted on AWS.

At least that’s what I recall reading here on HN.

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Re:20 years on AWS and never not my job by cperciva on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:53PM (#47732582)

Yes, that's correct. They're not idiots and realize that spinning up FreeBSD instances in EC2 can be very useful for development purposes -- the largest EC2 instances can run a buildworld very very fast -- but they have no need for FreeBSD/EC2 for their production workloads.

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