This is most accurate. A couple of comments: > Dropbox still uses AWS for its European customers. We haven't publicly launched EU storage yet but will be doin

This is most accurate. A couple of comments: > Dropbox still uses AWS for its European customers. We haven't publicly launched EU storage yet but will be doing so later in the year. > Dropbox hired a bunch of engineers from Facebook to build its own hardware heavily customised for data-storage and IOPS (naturally) Facebook and Google and startup folks and people from random other places. Our IOPS demands are reasonably modest on a per-disk basis which is why we skew heavily towards storage density. This is a different workload than you'd find at some of the other big players, hence a fairly custom solution. > Not a political move Definitely. AWS are great, we love working with them and will continue to do so.