Twitter selects AWS as strategic provider to serve timelines

Source: Xinhua| 2020-12-16 06:51:03|Editor: huaxia

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) on Tuesday announced that Twitter has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines.

Under the multi-year deal, Twitter will leverage AWS's proven infrastructure and portfolio of services to support the delivery of millions of daily Tweets, the announcement said.

This expansion onto AWS marks the first time that Twitter is leveraging the public cloud to scale their real-time service. Twitter will rely on the breadth and depth of AWS, including capabilities in compute, containers, storage, and security, to reliably deliver the real-time service with the lowest latency, while continuing to develop and deploy new features to improve how people use Twitter, according to the announcement.

The new agreement builds on the companies' more than decade-long collaboration, where AWS continues to provide Twitter with storage, compute, database, and content delivery services to support its distribution of images, videos and ad content, Amazon said.

"We are excited to work with AWS to expand the infrastructure Twitter uses to serve the public conversation as we grow globally," said Parag Agrawal, Chief Technology Officer of Twitter. "In addition to helping us scale our infrastructure, this work with AWS enables us to ship features faster as we apply AWS's diverse and growing portfolio of services."

"Twitter's decision to rely on AWS infrastructure and services for its real-time workloads will help them instantly scale their global footprint up and down without ever compromising the experience for people who use Twitter," said Matt Garman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services. Inc.