Niantic has been notoriously slow at infrastructure upgrades, shutting down huge parts of the game (like the Intel Map[0] practically required for large-scale o

Niantic has been notoriously slow at infrastructure upgrades, shutting down huge parts of the game (like the Intel Map[0] practically required for large-scale operations) during peak hours, which are always of course during events. Could it be that they needed to spin off from Google in order to get access to AWS, among other things? [0] https://www.ingress.com/intel https://www.ingress.com/intel