Twitch Costs

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#Shorts #Twitch #Amazon

[PirateSoftware]

Internal Amazon businesses like Twitch pay for AWS Services like IVS at the same rate that retail customers do. They use an AWS dashboard tool called Isengard to provision and manage this paid infrastructure. All of this is done over internal accounting and as stated in the video Twitch does not get a special discount.

[TheMajorStranger]

There's a reason why they skeedadle out of South Korea. Not only is the streaming cost a boatload, but they were also charged on bandwidth.

[MrTindall]

.... The fact Twitch is still alive is INSANE. And I heard there are a few 4K streams out there

[vladimir_bak]

"It costs 400, 000$ to run this stream... for 12 seconds"

[vexillian]

I'm glad Thor shows this, but Twitch should be the one advertising this information instead of just coming out and saying "we're unprofitable" with Trust-Me-Bro levels of explanation.

[Demon-syuw]

This makes sense why twitch hates sleep streams

[weenerhutjr]

Just FYI, this website uses the pricing for IVS as a product. Meaning this number is how much it would cost EVERYONE ELSE to run a stream for this long with these specs. Amazon pays far less for this stuff internally because it’s their own product. Amazon is still definitely losing money in comparison to their other services, but fyi the numbers don’t look nearly this bad for them internally when they use it for Twitch.

[huntakilla]

Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if twitch caps all streams at 720p, with these kinda costs. Crazy.

[getsumatsu]

Ah, this must be the reason why whenever I have Twitch playing in the background, it always goes to 360p until I pull it up again...

[alistairblaire]

Luke from Linus Tech Tips has always said that video hosting and streaming are insanely expensive but I didn’t think it was quite this much

[PaintingWinterMusic]

Twitch feels like a kid that's been flung into the adult world way too early and isn't ready to make all its own decisions yet.

[thetheory]

I've heard that it's a sort of management scheme, where amazon will charge twitch full price for streaming as a way of knowing how much twitch is spending that way, and then reinvests the difference between what it actually costs amazon and what twitch paid, back into twitch. This localizes fundings and keeps them in amazon itself, and locks up a bunch of twitch's funds, which prevents that specific money from being messed with by twitch people. Keep twitch on an IV drip of funds where you don't ever let it die, but don't give it enough resources for people to fund themselves at amazon's expense.

[dumbotterlover]

Them beign bought by AWS... I mean Amazon, must have helped them MASSIVELY. Amazon's own ads are probably the only reason they still exist.

[yenda]

That calculator is based on AWS public pricing for their video streaming service. AWS is owned by Amazon and Amazon owns twitch for 10 years now. The public cost is way higher than the actual cost. I can believe they still lose money but not 4k per stream

[hhudy]

Jesus, I would’ve guessed about 43 dollars

[LegendHimseIf]

I'm making sure I always go out of my way to watch in the highest resolution from now on. Thank you Thor 😁

[SuperSmashDolls]

Those numbers are what AWS would charge to a third-party using their video delivery platform - not what Amazon pays themselves for bandwidth. Amazon almost certainly has settlement-free peering that drives that cost down. Same thing with Google. Every big tech company pays to build out private lines to every ISP because it's way cheaper than paying for transit. Any ISP that wants to kill a video platform can just refuse to peer and it kills them (see Comcast's peering spat with Level3 13 years ago, they wanted Level3 to pay extra for carrying Netflix traffic).

[magetsalive]

"Per year?"
"Oh you sweet, summer child."

[adamstlaurent]

"That's how THAT works" has been one of my favorite quotes for a while now thank you.

[travislefebvre]

I love that I’ve come back and seen this short again. This short has reached so many people and the reactions to how much it cost is priceless