Snap on AWS

Learn how Snap uses FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering to double their file storage capacity while keeping costs flat, free up engineering resources, improve operational posture, and continue to power some of the most demanding generative AI training workloads in production today.

Learn how Snap created a high performance solution that needed zero coding by enabling CloudFront Origin Shield, which improved the download and upload performance by reducing upload latency by up to 30% and cache-miss download latency by up to 15%. This implementation further optimized the cache hit ratio and reduced the number of requests to the origin.

Learn how Snap optimized the Bitmoji rendering pipeline, benefiting from faster CPUs and more cost-effective GPUs. This infrastructure alignment with Bitmoji’s specific needs facilitates both high efficiency and reduced costs.

Learn how how Snap builds its microservices, leveraging Amazon EKS with AWS Identity and Access Management. Snap also protects its K8s resources with intelligent threat detection offered by GuardDuty that is augmented with Falco and in-house tooling to secure Snap’s cloud-native service mesh platform.

Learn how Snap rebuilt its cloud architecture for sending over 5 billion Snaps per day, 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 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.

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.

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.