My guess is that it will be significantly costlier to go self-sufficient (during something like the coming decade) considering AWS' almost 12+ year lead on these technologies. Only Netflix speaks out on harsh new abortion laws as activists call for Georgia boycott that would impact jobs and cost billions. Netflix completed a massive cloud migration in 2016 from its data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Let's do some basic Maths: First let's determine how many Netflix videos an average user sees. To deliver its content, Netflix relies on Open Connect , which is a network of data centers around the world with a clear focus to bring Netflix closer to its customers globally. The PR damage of Netflix even making noise about leaving AWS would be terrible for the service as it fights for market share against Azure and Google. Netflix is a big user of Amazon’s cloud - no one can argue that. My monthly bill is about 1 USD. Bill has 5 jobs listed on their profile. The billing redundancy argument would be applicable generally but in the case Netflix on AWS is not something Netflix has to worry about. To serve videos through AWS CDN cloudfront, with bandwidth over 5PB the price drops at $0.02/GB when going out of AWS to US & Europe (I assume Netflix does send way more than 5PB out of AWS). Yep, that's almost nothing, but this month (april last year) I had to pay 14,267.86 USD (well at least that's what my bill says) Netflix is a marquee AWS customer. To open an AWS Support case where you specify Regarding: Account and Billing Support, you must either be signed into AWS as the root account owner, or have IAM permissions to open a support case. Click on the bill you would like to access Depending on how long you have had your Netflix account, a list of billed transactions will appear and every bill will allow of Netflix users to view them using the billing date, which will be on the far left hand side of the screen under ‘Billing details’. Passes $741 Billion Defense Bill With Veto-Proof Majority, Buying Time For Stimulus And Budget Deal ... Netflix is using AWS … Month to month I use S3 from AWS to store photos and documents from several apps I got on production and also use Route 53 to route the domain with the app itself. To replace AWS with in-house expertise producing acceptable quality cloud services for Netflix, how much will Netflix have to spend? Netflix relies on AWS cloud computing for its computing and storage related needs. Its AWS bill alone is 800 million lines long - running into the hundreds of gigabytes of data every month. View Bill Gabler’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. 4. For more information, see Accessing AWS Support in the AWS Support User Guide.