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Dropbox is now at petabyte scale. Last I had a conversation with someone at Dropbox they mentioned they’re moving storage in-house but still use quite a bit of
by nojvek 9y ago
Dropbox is now at petabyte scale. Last I had a conversation with someone at Dropbox they mentioned they’re moving storage in-house but still use quite a bit of AWS for service.
I think hybrid totally makes sense where you take the most expensive part bare metal with limited scope of maintenance.
- user5994461 9y agoI'd assume Dropbox is at least hexabyte scale. 1 PB is $23k per month on S3. It's nothing. That's barely the costs of 1-2 employees in SV. The migration itself would take a lot more effort than one dude, even if there was a solution for completely free storage out there, the migration could only result in a huge net loss.