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> Dropbox uses AWS They very loudly left AWS several years ago, not aware of them going back.
by cowsandmilk 7y ago
> Dropbox uses AWS
They very loudly left AWS several years ago, not aware of them going back.
- dehrmann 7y agoWasn't it because they hit the scale where managing their own data store, renting colo space, etc. was cheaper than AWS? I've heard first-hand from some large players that self-hosting is cheaper. One is still-hosted, but one is on the cloud as a strategic bet.
- jsty 7y agoCutting out the middleman and their profit margins is almost always going to be cheaper if you have the requisite scale requirements. Depending on what your workloads are (particularly non-bandwidth intensive), that scale can be pretty damn large for compute infra nowadays.
- doctorpangloss 7y agoScale? Cheaper? Self-hosting a single server in San Francisco is cheaper than AWS too. AWS sells convenience and baked-in knowledge.
- ethbro 7y agoSelf-hosting is cheaper at both ends of scale. Enterprise clouds are cheaper if you're in the middle and/or quickly changing scale.
- sam1r 7y agoIMO, I think you're undermining the multiple years of programming/sys-admin experience it would require to self-host + scale on your own. It's much more expensive when experience is minimized, as a function of time. Unless you've done it before, of course.