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There are a lot of comments saying that Netflix should run its own datacenter.

Adrian Cockcraft helped lead Netflix's effort to move to AWS and now is a VP at AWS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriancockcroft/

He did an interview with Software Engineering Radio back in 2014 explaining their motivation.

http://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcroft...

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> Adrian Cockcraft helped lead Netflix's effort to move to AWS and now is a VP at AWS.

I always get a bad taste in my mouth when I read things like that. Was it really an objective choice, or was this AWS’ way of saying “thank you” ?

He led the largest migration from on premises to AWS. Who else would have more experience?

No way, if I was CTO of a big company (or, say, whoever at Pentagon is in charge of IT), I would love to speak to the guy that shifted Netflix away from in-house datacenters to "The Cloud".

And now dropbox owns those datacentres. ;)

You're ignoring the fact that he spent a few years at Battery Ventures in between Netflix and AWS. Adrian is a well respected professional in his field, has been around for decades, and nobody holds any negative perceptions of him.

He wasn't hired by AWS because he migrated datacenters to the cloud. He was hired by AWS because he created this: https://netflix.github.io/ - Netflix's OSS, which has allowed them to attract so much great talent, was a direct result of Adrian's passionate open source advocacy. He's doing the same thing at AWS now, and has already accomplished great things like open sourcing all of the AWS documentation.

Disclaimer: work at AWS.

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