Twitch accounted for nearly 2% of peak Internet traffic in the U.S., or 4th overall

http://time.com/3178357/amazon-explains-twitch-deal/

That's just insane!

It also looks like Twitch is going to remain, for the most part, an independent company. Operating as it did, but now with the backing and resources that Amazon can provide.

Well HD video streams are pretty hungry on bandwidth...

All streams I've seen look to be at under 720p, easy.

That's one of the things I want from this buyout. Better quality streams. That and an HTML5 player, but now we're getting distracted.

Especially the streams with more viewers (tournaments and the like) always offer at least 720p, often 1080p.
Streaming quality on twitch has an insane quality if the uploader can deal with it.

4k?

It certainly is a challenge to deal with that much video...

Amazon has awesome servers. I look forward to clearer streams!

Almost every stream I've seen on twitch had the quality bottlenecked on the streamer end, not the server end.

I'm not sure what you expect from better twitch servers. It's not like twitch having better servers will lighten the load on streamers at all.

You can always use better resources somewhere. Even in the webprogramming end. Twitch could use a lot of integration with a lot of things, it is headed that way but can always use moar.

Well maybe the occasional 300k viewer LoL tournament streams wont jam the rest of Twitch when they're on.

The SC 2: Heart of the Swarm tournament pulled ~100K at peak times. Doesn't really compare much to the LoL, but that's still pretty good. And it was certainly 720p.