
Netflix on AWS
Netflix is a video on demand streaming service with over 280 million members in more than 190 countries.
Netflix's cloud journey
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 on AWS, enabling engagement with artistic talent anywhere in the world without technological or geographical barriers.
Building a hit mobile game quickly using Amazon GameLift servers with Netflix
2025
Netflix wanted to rapidly develop a mobile game based on its hit TV show Squid Game before the release of the show’s second season. By building Squid Game: Unleashed on AWS, Netflix could focus on developing more engaging game features while the AWS team managed the infrastructure, increasing speed to market. Using Amazon GameLift, a fully managed service with game streaming and multiplayer game server capabilities, Netflix released a reliable, scalable, and successful game on time and with a small team.

How Netflix handles sudden load spikes in the cloud
2024
Netflix operates actively across four AWS Regions, serving global traffic by intelligently directing users and managing costs through thousands of auto-scaling compute server groups. At times, traffic surges hit their service that could exceed capacity. This session walks through how Netflix solves these problems by combining predictive automated pre-scaling with fast reactive auto-scaling, along with advanced resilience techniques. These techniques include prioritized load shedding, cross-Region traffic shifting, targeted capacity injection based on service criticality, and more. Learn how to maintain low operational costs while being prepared for sudden load spikes.

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 email solution. Netflix needed an email system that was flexible, affordable, highly scalable, and had global reach. Learn how Netflix uses Amazon SES to overcome these challenges and discover the benefits the company has realized by using the service.

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Netflix's massive multi-account journey
About Netflix
Netflix entertains the world by 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. 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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