Bookmarking this for next time there's a HN comment "why is Netflix using AWS, they should just get some cheap VPS's from DO"
The rise of the public cloud is pretty fortunate for companies like DO, they can make the same assumptions that legacy VPS companies did (most vm's sit idle so oversell them massively, most customers will create a single vm and nothing else) while branding themselves as having the same strong infrastructure as AWS.
Has anyone ever actually said Netflix should switch from AWS to "some cheap VPS's from DO"? AWS offers a lot that DO doesn't. They're hardly even comparable.
The rise of the public cloud is pretty fortunate for companies like DO, they can make the same assumptions that legacy VPS companies did (most vm's sit idle so oversell them massively, most customers will create a single vm and nothing else) while branding themselves as having the same strong infrastructure as AWS.