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Dropbox sends data directly to/from Amazon S3 for its storage. Dropbox themselves don't provide any storage. Here is S3's pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pr
by mike-cardwell 16y ago
Dropbox sends data directly to/from Amazon S3 for its storage. Dropbox themselves don't provide any storage. Here is S3's pricing:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
S3 charges for both storage and data transfer. Their most expensive data storage cost is 0.15USD/GB ie 7.50USD/month for 50GB. The more storage you use, the less per GB it costs, so I'm guessing Dropbox pay a lot less than 0.15USD/GB.
- metachris 16y agoAfaik Dropbox also uses hashing to recognize already existing files (eg. Windows XP SP2, etc.). In their scale that will save quite a bit of storage too.