[philipwhiuk]

> One crucial way in which we do this is through the democratization of highly curated data sources that sunshine usage and cost patterns across Netflix’s services and teams.

No engineer has ever said this. I miss when engineering blogs were actual engineering. This blog post has been through so much management waffle rewording it no longer adds much to the conversation.

[tlarkworthy]

I was excited when I read the title but after reading I am at a loss to understand how Netflix is solving the problem. Centralised cost dashboards??!?

How do they solve it on AWS? Tags, Accounts, something else? Why can't they use cost explorer?

[diab0lic]

Once you hit a certain scale anything on the AWS console becomes impossible to use. It’s one of the reasons most high to very high scale companies use something else to manage cloud resources. See: Spinnaker and Asgard for Netflix specific examples, but also Terraform and the many alternatives.

[computerfriend]

I work for an organisation that is at this scale on AWS. Of course, we use Terraform, but the cost explorer and tags and so on are still usable (and useful).

[diab0lic]

That’s fair, I should have caveated this statement with the fact that I don’t know much about using the modern AWS console.

There are likely a few factors at play here, including the fact that Netflix decided to go its own way in this regard ~15y ago.

Though I work at a smaller (but still large), newer company now we still also have our own stuff for this.

[bobnamob]

I can back up your anecdote.

For <business reasons> we have in the order of 10^6 SNS topics in one account+region pair. In that account, while in that region, the SNS console is entirely frozen. I suspect they're doing some looped pagination polling in the background and fall over on our degenerate use case.

Edit: I can also back up the other parent comment - tagging still works fine (and I know for a fact the stability and scalability of the tag system is taken more seriously than most things within AWS)

[jamesblonde]

"sunshine" - in corporate speak, no noun is too proper to verbify.

[lpapez]

Oh Kingdom of Nouns, whomst we've foolishly renounced, how longingly we now yearn for thee!

[bobnamob]

“sunshine” along with the “rising sun” diagram make me wonder if this entire blog is some engineer’s subtle attempt at satire

[mhh__]

Does it perhaps mean in business speak: "We're now in the third phase of growth, we needed to make the engineers spend less on servers"?