When Snap disclosed earlier this month that its server bills, on a per user basis, rose in the second quarter, it reignited a longstanding question about whether the company can scale up its business while relying on public cloud services run by Google and Amazon Web Services.
Snap revealed that the amount it paid out to these services jumped 10% in the week before the end of the quarter as the app launched a new product, Snap Map. That contributed to Snap’s hosting costs ticking up to 61 cents per user from 60 cents in the first quarter.
