Given Twitch is owned by Amazon, do they have the same cost considerations as the rest of us? Or do they get steeper discounts on EC2?
It makes sense to autoscale as hard as you like, if your cloud fees go back into your own pocket.
It makes sense to autoscale as hard as you like, if your cloud fees go back into your own pocket.
Also remember that even Amazon has running costs, and I suspect as the autoscaling goes up, the profit margins drop.