It marks the first time Twitter has used the public cloud to scale real-time services with the firm specifically leveraging AWS' capabilities in compute, containers, storage, and security.
AWS has provided storage, compute, database, and content delivery services to Twitter for more than a decade. In a statement, Twitter said it would continue to use AWS services such as Amazon CloudFront and Amazon DynamoDB.
“We are excited to work with AWS to expand the infrastructure Twitter uses to serve the public conversation as we grow globally,” said Twitter CTO, Parag Agrawal.
“The collaboration with AWS will improve performance for people who use Twitter by enabling us to serve Tweets from data centres closer to our customers at the same time as we leverage the Arm-based architecture of AWS Graviton2 instances. 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.”
Matt Garman, VP of sales and marketing at AWS, added: “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.
“By using AWS container services to create a seamless hybrid on-premises and cloud environment, Twitter can innovate and deliver new experiences quickly and cost-effectively.”
