Netflix on AWS
Netflix is a video on demand streaming service with over 280 million members in more than 190 countries. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Netflix innovates with speed and delivers best-in-class entertainment consistently. AWS provides Netflix with compute, storage, and infrastructure that allow the company to scale quickly, operate securely, and meet capacity needs anywhere in the world. Moreover, as a content producer, Netflix built a virtual studio in the AWS cloud, enabling engagement with artistic talent anywhere in the world without technological or geographical barriers.
Netflix's Cloud Journey
Designing Better ML Systems: Learnings from Netflix
[2020] Data science at Netflix goes far beyond eponymous recommendation systems and touches every aspect of the business, from optimizing content delivery to fighting fraud. Netflix’s unique culture affords its data scientists extraordinary freedom of choice in tools, which results in an ever-expanding set of machine learning approaches and systems. In 2019, Netflix open-sourced its human-centric ML platform, Metaflow. In this session, Netflix shares some lessons learned in its multi-year journey building the ML systems that Metaflow incorporates.
How Netflix Thinks About Cybersecurity
[2020] AWS chief information security officer Steve Schmidt sits down with Jason Chan, vice president of information security at Netflix, to talk about security strategy, building a security program, Zero Trust, and cats as a unique threat model.
Netflix Connects with 100 Million Customers in 190 Countries Using Amazon Simple Email Service
[2020] Before migrating to Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), Netflix maintained an in-house solution for sending email. Netflix needed an email solution that was flexible, affordable, highly scalable, and that had global reach. Learn how Netflix uses Amazon SES to overcome these challenges and the benefits the company realized by using the service.
AWS re:Invent 2024 | How Netflix Handles Sudden Load Spikes in the Cloud
[2024] Netflix operates at full active across four AWS Regions, serving their global traffic by intelligently steering users and managing costs via thousands of auto scaling compute server groups. At various times, traffic surges hit their service that could exceed capacity. In this session, walk through how Netflix solves these problems by pairing predictive automated pre-scaling with fast reactive auto scaling in combination with advanced resilience techniques like prioritized load shedding, cross-Region traffic shifting, targeted capacity injection by service criticality, and more. Discover how to maintain a low level of spend while being ready for sudden load spikes.
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About Netflix
Netflix entertains the world, providing a wide variety of TV series, films, and games to hundreds of millions of members across the globe in over 30 languages. Netflix builds diversity, inclusion, equity, and a global outlook into everything it does, and by fostering a culture of courage, empathy, and curiosity, Netflix can move faster to develop new stories and better ways of sharing them with its members around the world.
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