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by jpalomaki 3415 days ago
I don't think they could build their own infrastructure cheaper than Google or Amazon. Both companies have very large scale and have been doing this for quite a time, have custom hardware etc.

For deals of this size, it might make sense for both Google and Amazon to put their margins quite low - as they know the alternative is that Snapchat just builds their own infra. For Google there could be also the PR factor involved.