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Surely S3 is a pebble compared to Dropbox?
by s_dev 6y ago
Surely S3 is a pebble compared to Dropbox?
- foota 6y agoYou're probably backwards there. Edit: in 2016 Dropbox stored 400PB (https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/magic-pocket-infrastructure https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/magic-pocket-infrastruct...), in 2018 S3 was storing multiple exabytes (https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-Amazon-S3-across-all-regions https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-Amazon-S3-across-all-region...) I suspect multiple exabytes is a low ball.
- sethhochberg 6y agoPlus, that 400PB Dropbox was storing in 2016 was - until around that same time, when they built their Magic Pocket system - itself stored on S3.
- s_dev 6y ago>You're probably backwards there. Probably -- came back to my comment 24 hours later and realized I mixed up DB and S3 in the sentence.
- TheFlyingFish 6y agoI'm not as sure about that, given the extent of the chaos that ensues every time S3 goes down for half a day.
- patmorgan23 6y agoPeople don't put big data warehouses on Dropbox, they do in S3.