Twitter collabs with Google Cloud; est. $10m per month

[Ink]

Content source

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/twitter_adopts_google_cloud_for_hadoop_and_cloud_storage/

That announcement mentions “more than 300PB of data across tens of thousands of servers”, so The Register fed Google’s handy cloud price calculator 300PB of cold storage and 20,000 mid-range servers.

The Register imagines that Twitter will pay nowhere near the US$9,969,209.60 quoted: Google’s known to covet and pursue big customers. It’s doubtless happy to have a 300PB-and-thousads-of-servers client aboard.

But this isn’t total victory for Google. We know this because when Twitter recently revealed details of its infrastructure it detailed “tens of thousands of hosts” for various applications that and the fact that Twitter ran some of its Apache Mesos and Aurora implementations in AWS.

Here’s the quote that came back:

Read more: Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month

As we have previously discussed, the Hadoop compute system is the core of our data platform, and Twitter runs multiple large Hadoop clusters that are among the biggest in the world. In fact, our Hadoop file systems host more than 300PB of data across tens of thousands of servers. Over the past few years, we have been assessing our platform and infrastructure needs to make sure we are well positioned to keep up with the growing needs of our service.

Today, we are excited to announce that we are working with Google Cloud to move cold data storage and our flexible compute Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform. This will enable us to enhance the experience and productivity of our engineering teams working with our data platform.

Twitter Blog: A new collaboration with Google Cloud

 

[frogboy]

Way too much for me.