I think Netflix's usage of AWS is being understated here. On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 6:29 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> There's a big difference between a website (admittedly a complex one) and > a mobile core. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Michael Thomas" <m...@mtcc.com> > *To: *nanog@nanog.org > *Sent: *Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:54:57 PM > *Subject: *Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile? > > > On 1/26/22 11:11 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > > > On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote: > > > >> > >> Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when > >> the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to > >> anticipate because it's all black box. > >> > >> Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 > >> months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to > >> control. > > > > I don't disagree. > > > > What this does, though, is democratize access into the industry. For a > > simple business model that is serving a small community with a handful > > of eyeballs, not trying to grow forever but put food on the table, > > it's somewhere to start. > > > Didn't Netflix for the longest time run on AWS? I imagine if I were > talking to a VC these days and said the first thing I was going to do is > rack up a bunch of servers, I'd get laughed at. Cloud makes sense until > it doesn't make sense. Just like everything else. > > Mike > > >
