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by onion2k 3420 days ago
They could do, and it might save them a few hundred million dollars, but the risk of project failure (lateness, budget overrun, etc) would be a lot higher. For example, committing $1bn to AWS with with a 5% risk of failure is a lot more sensible than committing $750m with a 25% risk of failure doing it yourself. It's entirely possible Snap's board would have refused to let them do it themselves if the risk was high enough.