Snapchat pays Google cloud $400MM a year. Using these cost metrics, are Twitter's compute needs 9X those of Snapchat? maybe so. seems reasonable to me. And then perhaps, this person is saying that cloud (Google or otherwise) is not the way to go for Snapchat
https://www.vox.com/2017/3/1/14661126/snap-snapchat-ipo-spen...