Amazon has announced that Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.company was selected by Twitter to provide global Cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines.
AWS said in a press release that under the multi-year deal, Twitter will leverage AWS’s proven infrastructure & portfolio of services to support delivery of millions of daily Tweets. This expansion onto AWS marks the first time that Twitter is leveraging the public Cloud to scale their real-time service.
Twitter, said AWS, will rely on the breadth & depth of AWS, including capabilities in compute, containers, storage, & security, to reliably deliver the real-time service with the lowest latency, while continuing to develop & deploy new features to improve how people use Twitter. The new agreement builds on the companies’ more than decade-long collaboration, where AWS continues to provide Twitter with storage, compute, database, & Content delivery services to support its distribution of images, videos & ad Content.
