According to The New York Times, Netflix has just embarked on a two-year project to “move most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like” to an Amazon-powered infrastructure. Netflix VP of Engineering Kevin McEntee explains that this unexpected switch allows Netflix to “focus our innovation around finding movies, rather than building larger and larger data centers.”
These days the cloud providers are struggling to bring these types of flexible services to the more conservative as well as lucrative world of large corporations. While most of the large companies have already taken their first careful steps into the cloud, but still many are worried about data failures and slow delivery of data over a network.
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