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One of Korea's homegrown Twitch alternatives, AfreecaTV, uses AWS Cloudfront to serve video to users. Amazon wins either way.
by Scaevolus 3y ago
One of Korea's homegrown Twitch alternatives, AfreecaTV, uses AWS Cloudfront to serve video to users.
Amazon wins either way.
- duskwuff 3y agoThat can't be cheap. How are they making that work, from a financial perspective, when Twitch couldn't?
- jmlim00 3y agoWhat 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.
- undersuit 3y agoBecause 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.
- user_named 3y agoYou misunderstood the question
- undersuit 3y agoAmazon 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.
- user_named 3y agoYou still don't get it
- earthling8118 3y agoAnd you're not helping them by vaguely saying their points have missed the mark.
- riwsky 3y agoThey were comfortable risking user security by making everyone’s IPs visible to the other viewers (for P2P streaming); Twitch wasn’t.