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People started to use Dropbox as a free CDN, didn't they? Why do we need AWS CloudFront if we have Dropbox? :)

• reaganing 14y ago
  That seems the likely reason to me.
• lwhi 14y ago
  I agree .. this is probably the reason. However I think the fact that dropbox could be utilized in unexpected ways, provided the company with a great deal of goodwill and singled them out as innovators in an otherwise stale market. Sorry, tried to upvote you but hit down by accident as my fingers are too fat.
• TillE 14y ago
  They've always had a public bandwidth limit, though, even for paid users. And this change hardly affects that anyway, except for being an inconvenience.
• driverdan 14y ago
  Because S3 makes a terrible CDN. The latency is bad and can vary significantly. Using it as a CDN for very large files is fine but for standard static web assets it's terrible.
  • ceejayoz 14y ago
    Where was S3 mentioned? The post said CloudFront.
    • treyp 14y ago
      Dropbox uses S3
      • ceejayoz 14y ago
        Yes, but not directly. They've built or are using a CDN in front of S3, just like CloudFront.