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by toast0 3142 days ago
It's running on Google infra, of course it's banned.
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They also seem to run on AWS, so not necessarily a problem. http://fortune.com/2017/02/09/snap-inc-signs-big-aws-deal/
there's an "open source" Google App Engine called AppScale that can run outside Google Cloud.
Managing the software used to run a cloud platform isn't the hardest part of running a cloud platform. It would be a significantly larger effort for Snap to run and manage their own physical infrastructure. It's a big reason why Google Cloud is a service that makes money.