5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html

"When I look back at what the team has accomplished this year in our AWS migration, I’m truly amazed. But it didn’t always feel this good. AWS is only a few years old, and building at a high scale within it is a pioneering enterprise today. There were some dark days as we struggled with the sheer size of the task we’d taken on, and some of the differences between how AWS operates vs. our own data centers."