Prateek Sharma

Managing IAM across a large, fast-growing AWS footprint quickly outgrows manual review — every permission change creates friction for engineers and queue time for operators.

Netflix's strategy for optimizing its cloud architecture for efficiency and reliability. Placement of workloads on price-optimal hardware by automatically modeling capacity requirements and understanding AWS hardware performance and pricing.

Two years ago, Netflix introduced the idea of decoupling AWS Identity and Access Management roles from applications’ underlying compute infrastructure in order to house those identities in workload-specific AWS accounts.

Migrating an application’s identity across AWS accounts requires a clear picture of its identity-resource relationships. In this session, learn how Netflix filled gaps in cloud data sources by instrumenting AWS SDKs to create new categories of visibility.

AWS offers hundreds of different types of Amazon 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 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...