Customer Stories / Media & Entertainment

2022
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How Netflix Plans Optimal Capacity in the Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers hundreds of different types of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) options, and Netflix has a multitude of different stateful and stateless workloads that need different combinations of CPU, RAM, disk, and network.

In this 2022 AWS re:Invent session, learn how Netflix uses a service capacity modeling system to optimally consume Amazon EC2 to run a variety of uncertain workloads ranging from Cassandra databases to stateless Java applications.

AWS Services Used

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 600 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload.

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