San Francisco: Twitter will tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help power its endless tweets, deepening its ties with cloud-computing firms.
Twitter, under a multiyear deal announced on Tuesday, will use AWS to provide “global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines”, supplementing its own data centers that store and show text, photos and videos. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms.
High-tech upstarts such as Airbnb and Netflix are among AWS’s early customers.
The San Francisco-based social media network said working with Amazon’s cloud will help improve the performance by tapping data centers that are closer to people.
Twitter’s chief technology officer Parag Agrawal was quoted by Bloomberg as saying that Twitter will be able to “ship features faster” with Amazon’s suite.