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by oldsklgdfth 895 days ago
> Pay retail prices for AWS

Is this actually the case for Twitch? How are they different from any other Amazon team using AWS?

2 comments

Even if they didn't get internal discount, there's no way they pay retail as in advertised prices. At that size AWS itself would likely want bandwidth commitment for a longer period too.
Twitch rans on a separate network. Bulk traffic is not on AWS.
At that size AWS has custom contracts even with non-subsidiaries
My information is some years old, but last I heard other teams at Amazon do at least keep track of what their retail AWS costs would be.