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Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by duskwuff on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:07PM (#38587567)
That can't be cheap. How are they making that work, from a financial perspective, when Twitch couldn't?
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by undersuit on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:31PM (#38588137)
Because Amazon has no reason to risk Twitch profitablity. Twitch is not a profit maker it's a profit guarantee. Twitch doesn't need to compete with Kick or Afreekas. Amazon makes money.
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by user_named on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:24PM (#38588440)
You misunderstood the question
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by undersuit on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:25AM (#38589592)
Amazon makes money whether it's their own Twitch or AfreecaTV using their servers.

AWS isn't closing down their Seoul data center, it's just letting AfreecaTV take the risk of streaming while still getting profits from said streaming.

Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by user_named on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:14AM (#38589758)
You still don't get it
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by earthling8118 on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:07AM (#38601268)
And you're not helping them by vaguely saying their points have missed the mark.
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by jmlim00 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:48PM (#38587857)
What I have heard was Afreeca makes use of distributed computing so that resources are shared directly between users rather than everything getting downloaded from their servers. This apparently cuts down on the amount of traffic load.
Re:Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea by riwsky on Sunday December 10, 2023 @09:14AM (#38591626)
They were comfortable risking user security by making everyone’s IPs visible to the other viewers (for P2P streaming); Twitch wasn’t.