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Cloud Efficiency at Netflix
Netflix uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its cloud infrastructure needs, including compute, storage, and networking. The company's diverse technological landscape generates extensive data from various infrastructure entities, which data engineers and analysts use to provide actionable insights to the engineering organization. The Data & Insights organization partners with engineering teams to share key efficiency metrics, empowering stakeholders to make informed business decisions. The Platform DSE team has developed a two-component solution: Foundational Platform Data (FPD) and Cloud Efficiency Analytics (CEA). FPD provides a centralized data layer for all platform data, featuring a consistent data model and standardized data processing methodology. CEA offers an analytics data layer that provides time series efficiency metrics across various business use cases. The team aims to continue onboarding platforms to FPD and CEA, striving for nearly complete cost insight coverage in the upcoming year. They also plan to extend FPD to other areas of the business, such as security and availability, and move towards proactive approaches via predictive analytics and ML for optimizing usage and detecting anomalies in cost.