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Netflix continued use of AWS would seem to argue against cloud addiction being an automatic path to scale fail.
by JamieEi 15y ago
Netflix continued use of AWS would seem to argue against cloud addiction being an automatic path to scale fail.
- vailripper 15y agoMy understanding is that they use a subset of AWS features - don't they avoid EBS and mostly just use S3?
- zedpm 15y agoYep, they wrote about this on their tech blog: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-.... It seems that they identified EBS as potentially problematic and built their system with minimal dependencies on EBS. Consequently they weathered the April AWS outage rather well.