• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True, that’s mostly what their cost is. Servers and storage.

    I wonder how much YouTube depends on cloud storage right now.

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      1 year ago

      100%? Do you think that there’s some box sitting under someone’s desk hosting Youtube? Hint: They’re owned by Google.

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        1 year ago

        I work in IT, I know how storage works. I just don’t know if they’re on prem hosting or primarily using a private cloud service.

        I mean they have the money, might as well offload to specialists where you can, right? I wouldn’t be building new infrastructure day and night when I could just have a B to B contract with AWS or something.