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They don't use S3. They either host it themselves or they use something like Wasabi, which is a fraction of the cost. https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/
by latchkey 3y ago
They don't use S3. They either host it themselves or they use something like Wasabi, which is a fraction of the cost.
https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/ https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/
- marsilinou97 3y agoI saw an article sometime back they they're built on AWS. However, even if they're using a cheaper alternative like wasabi or R2, the cost still will quickly add up while data accumulate over time making their operational cost growing MoM. How is is business model is profitable after 10 or 20 years?
- KomoD 3y ago> They don't use S3. Wrong. > The company hosts its primary photo-serving application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store all photo and video data. “We were one of the first customers to use Amazon S3, and we’re now all-in on AWS,” says Meyers. “AWS takes care of the heavy lifting for us, so we can focus on what we do best—reliably storing and delivering photos and videos.”