“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”

Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” by williamsmj on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:57PM (#36556622)

I worked there. Services running on GCP are a significant part of the internal service infra (ml platform, etc.) and it's no impossible that the abrupt loss of GCP would cause user-facing problems. The GCP spend was many, many times the AWS spend. Unless things changed since last November, AWS is not a meaningful part of the internal or user-facing infra.

With respect to DynamoDB specifically, Twitter has its own custom distributed key-value store: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-... that twitter.com itself runs on.

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Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” by 18pfsmt on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:34PM (#36556888)

Thanks for weighing in with some actual first-hand knowledge. It is appreciated.

The latest on cloud hosting is from a week ago, and I'm guessing you don't have any more recent info than this:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

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Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” by williamsmj on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:56PM (#36557021)

Correct, no more recent (or less public) info than that. Like I say, losing GCP could cause problems users notice, but sounds like that’s not going to happen.

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