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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Netflix has been moving huge portions of its streaming operation [arstechnica.com] to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for years now, and it says it has finally completed its giant shift to the cloud. “We are happy to report that in early January of 2016, after seven years of diligent effort, we have finally completed our cloud migration and shut down the last remaining data center bits used by our streaming service,” Netflix said in a blog post that it plans to publish at noon Eastern today. (The blog should go up at this link [netflix.com].)

Netflix operates “many tens of thousands of servers and many tens of petabytes of storage” in the Amazon cloud, Netflix VP of cloud and platform engineering Yury Izrailevsky told Ars in an interview.

Netflix had earlier planned to complete the shift by the end of last summer [arstechnica.com].

“Billing and payments was the last remaining piece. We wanted to make sure we do it right; obviously, there is a lot of privacy concerns around customer data,” Izrailevsky said. Previously, the applications and data related to billing and payments were in a cage Netflix rented at a colocation facility.

With this last piece finished, Netflix’s streaming business no longer operates any of its own data center space. But not everything is in Amazon.

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