I’m struggling to understand how a company as big as Netflix is paying for a cloud service. Like for the cost that they’re charging customers monthly on top of how big they are, I really figured they would be running their own infrastructure at this point it seems like a needless money Leach to not be. Like sure you have to pay for the infrastructure and maintaining the infrastructure, but there is no way that on the scale that Netflix is and with how data transfer heavy it is, that it’s more cost-effective to be running a cloud stack.
The author has no clue how spending works in cloud environments nor why it’s so complicated to calculate. This is a pretty uniformed article.
Yeah, everyone struggles with that, especially since AWS doesn’t really break down costs in a way that makes sense if you’re trying to work out which business unit or feature is costing you money (unless you set things up where every team has their own account or whatever, and even then).
I think Netflix could probably start selling their tool and make more money from that then streaming if they can get it to work, because I’m guessing AWS makes it hard on purpose.
Not sure what is hard in it - you need consistent tagging, and that by itself gives you a lot of mileage in cost explorer.
Not only is that free, but I can’t imagine a better alternative. And they would have the same issue with allocation on prem. WithOUT tagging and Cost Explorer.
