Snap on AWS
Snap was born in the cloud—launching its flagship app, Snapchat, in 2011 on a cloud-native, monolithic architecture.
Snap’s cloud journey
Journey of a snap on Snapchat
2022
Learn how Snap rebuilt its cloud architecture for sending over 5 billion Snaps per day, leveraging AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon DynamoDB. This architecture overview walks through the challenges Snap faced in building low-latency, near real-time messaging architecture that handles over 10 million transactions per second, while optimizing the infrastructure costs by tens of millions of dollars, and reducing median latency to send image snaps by 24 percent.
Snap optimizes cost savings while storing over 1.5 trillion photos and videos on Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
2022
Snap migrated long-term storage for its Snapchat app to Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, saving tens of millions of dollars without diminishing performance, and it exceeded 99.99 percent availability.
Snap takes advantage of intelligent threat detection with Amazon GuardDuty
2020
In this episode of AWS Coffee Break, Roger Zou, a software engineer at Snap, shares how Snap uses Amazon GuardDuty to continuously identify threats, monitor its network activity and account behavior for malicious activity, and receive detailed security findings that help with remediation.
AWS keeps innovating, and that lets us keep innovating.
Jerry Hunter
SVP of Engineering, SnapAbout Snap
Snap Inc. has reinvented how people connect and express themselves, creating apps that help people use visual communication and storytelling to build friendships and transform how they see the world around them. Today, Snap builds on AWS database and compute solutions for its flagship apps, Snapchat and Bitmoji.
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