Twitter chooses Amazon to develop cloud infrastructure

Twitter announced last week that it will expand its relationship with Amazon. In its most recent operation into the public cloud, Twitter will use Amazon Web Services to improve the real-time experience of its users. This shift can optimize Twitter’s performance and save some IT costs.

The multi-year agreement between the two companies will allow Twitter to use AWS’s capabilities to support millions of daily tweets and improve the way people use the platform.

“This expansion onto AWS marks the first time that Twitter is leveraging the public cloud to scale their real-time service. Twitter will rely on the breadth and depth of AWS, including capabilities in compute, containers, storage, and security, to reliably deliver the real-time service with the lowest latency, while continuing to develop and deploy new features to improve how people use Twitter,” the company explained in the announcement.

In the past, social media companies mainly relied on internal servers. “Twitter’s decision to rely on AWS infrastructure and services for its real-time workloads will help them instantly scale their global footprint up and down without ever compromising the experience for people who use Twitter. By using AWS container services to create a seamless hybrid on-premises and cloud environment, Twitter can innovate and deliver new experiences quickly and cost-effectively” said Matt Garman, Vice President, Sales, and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Via: TechCrunch