Twitter migre ses clusters Hadoop and Google Cloud?

The well-known Twitter social network has just announced the migration of its cold data and Hadoop clusters to Google's cloud. According to the firm, this represents about 300 petabytes of data spread over tens of thousands of servers. Read More Info On Hadoop Training

If we stick to the official rates quoted by the Google Cloud price calculator, the bill for 300 petabytes of cold storage and 20000 mid-range servers is nearly $ 10 million per month.

It is unlikely, however, that Twitter will actually pay this rate. A customer of the size of Twitter could enable Google to gain market share in the cloud, currently largely dominated by Amazon Web Services and (to a lesser extent) by Microsoft Azure. Get More Info On Hadoop Certification

The Mountain View company should make every effort to ensure the durability of this contract, even if it gives Twitter a reduced rate and some tailor-made privileges.

Twitter will only migrate part of its infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform

It should be noted that Twitter does not intend to place all of its data and infrastructure in Google's hands. Like many organizations, the firm of Jack Dorsey has opted for a multi-cloud strategy.

The company recently revealed that it uses tens of thousands of hosts for different applications, and some of its Apache Mesos and Aurora implementations are hosted on AWS. The Hadoop clusters that Twitter migrates to Google Cloud are not the ones that support tweets from social network users. Get More Points Hadoop Online Training