Their newest boxes are 100% flash, but they're still rolling out the older spinning-rust designs. The all-flash boxes are for the most frequently requested movies, in the locations where there's enough traffic to justify them.
probably talking about the openconnect CDN, which I don't believe is AWS based. One of the options for openconnect is for the machines to be hosted at the ISP, so that part definitely is not AWS.
Are HAMR drives commercially available yet? Wiki makes it sound like 60TB HAMR drives will be readily available at low cost for consumers by 2016 or so, do you think that's likely the reality of things?
http://storageeffect.media.seagate.com/files/2012/03/perpham...
Netflix, which uses HGST high-capacity hard drives in its data centers
I thought Netflix uses Amazon AWS ?