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by trowawee 1316 days ago
> If so, even just moving to on-prem would save them the $1B easily

Except you can't wave a magic wand and shift the entire distributed infrastructure for one of the five most visited sites on earth on-prem. Twitter has two DCs. Running their infra on-prem somewhere would require reworking the entire company from the ground up in a way that would take years and cost substantially more than $1b.

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Having their own DCs means they are on-prem already.