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[qaq]

You seriously think there is a provider somewhere sitting on 20 empty datacenters with all the hardware procured and hooked up just waiting on an off chance Netflix might switch?

[cgio → qaq]

I don't think the AWS datacenters would disappear in thin air either.

[qaq → cgio]

Well neither would warehouses and other infrastructure they built but that was not the premise that is being discussed.

[brianwawok → qaq]

You realize most of Netflix is not in AWS right?

[qaq → brianwawok]

You realize that netflix is using up over 20% of aws capacity and as cool as having your own cdn is there is not much purpose in it without the part that runs on AWS.

[toomuchtodo → qaq]

The part that runs in AWS could just as easily run on bare metal. Stack Overflow does it, Backblaze does it, Github does it; I'm so disappointed in this tired trite that your a special snowflake running in AWS.

[qaq → toomuchtodo]

Yes it would run even better but it would take a few years to do the buildout.

[manquer → qaq]

Nothing is going disappear overnight.. AWS iaas services are commodity and not something so unique that are not replaceable with products from other cloud vendors

[qaq → manquer]

At Netflix scale they are not replaceable by other vendors because other vendors do not have enough capacity to accommodate Netflix migration.

[toomuchtodo → qaq]

Can you provide information as to how much capacity Netflix would need to migrate? Otherwise, this comment has no basis in reality.

[qaq → toomuchtodo]

there are estimates that netflix is consuming about 20% of AWS. AWS does not publish a list of DCs but from regions and AZs you can put a lower bound estimate at 40 so it would be anywhere from 8 DCs to whatever the upper bound is (I guesstimated 20)