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Do you know what Amazon is going to do with their excess 500PB of capacity? Are they scaling up fast enough that it isn't a big deal? Is Glacier selling your va
by gvb 11y ago
Do you know what Amazon is going to do with their excess 500PB of capacity? Are they scaling up fast enough that it isn't a big deal? Is Glacier selling your vacated storage?
You must have left a large hole in AWS' revenue stream. I assume their fees for transferring your data out of their system helped cover that short-term, but 500PB of data is a lot of storage capacity to sell.
Your other answers indicate your separation with AWS was very amicable, much more amicable than I would have expected. Either "its just business" or they have plans to backfill the hole you left.
- discodave 11y agoOne of the AWS people at Re:Invent mentioned that Amazon is storing 8EB across all storage services (S3, Glacier etc.) So 500PB is ~6% of that... Although I'm sure Amazon would have liked to keep Dropbox as a customer it's probably a pretty small percentage of their revenue. Also, if you assume that AWS is growing at ~50% year over year then 6% of S3 is only about one or two months worth of growth. I think it was this talk but I'm not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDQsW_r1DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDQsW_r1DM
- toyg 11y agoWith storage you're constantly mothballing and replacing old iron behind the scenes, so Amazon might just ditch a bunch of old depreciated drives without hard feelings. AWS being on the up and up for SMEs, they are probably not crying over losing one large but very demanding customer -- and DB are still on AWS for European customers anyway.