Snap on Using AWS to Support 250 Million Users

Snap, Inc. uses HAQM Web Services (AWS) to support its massive scale and rapid growth, reduce costs, and maintain a secure, reliable infrastructure. In this fireside chat, Jerry Hunter, SVP of engineering for Snap, talks about how the rapid innovation of AWS helps the company create new experiences for mobile devices. Snap owns the Snapchat camera app, Spectacles camera sunglasses, and Bitmoji, a tool for creating personal emojis. The company migrated to AWS Graviton Processor-based HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances in only 1 week, which greatly reduced instance costs. By building on AWS services like HAQM EC2 and HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), Snap engineers can focus on new product development rather than managing infrastructure.