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> I think Amazon was betting that AWS efficiencies could push Twitch into profitability, guess not.

I don't think any significant chunk of the Twitch infra runs on AWS.

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IVS doesn’t (or at least when I worked there, didn’t) use AWS network.

Streaming traffic goes (or went) through Twitch’s network - it’s cheaper traffic compared to CloudFront’s.

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0 pointsfer2y ago0 comments

> I think Amazon was betting that AWS efficiencies could push Twitch into profitability, guess not.

I don't think any significant chunk of the Twitch infra runs on AWS.

IVS doesn’t (or at least when I worked there, didn’t) use AWS network.

Streaming traffic goes (or went) through Twitch’s network - it’s cheaper traffic compared to CloudFront’s.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse