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lnz_metoday at 11:26 AM1 replyview on HN

Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure built by volunteers like Colin


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tiffanyhtoday at 1:05 PM

I don’t think they do.

Netflix uses FreeBSD specifically for their custom-built CDN/streaming servers, which are hosted directly with ISPs … not on AWS. Their user-facing catalog app, however, runs on Ubuntu servers hosted on AWS.

At least that’s what I recall reading here on HN.