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Dropbox and Heroku are built on top of AWS (amongst thousands of other companies)
by mirador 12y ago
Dropbox and Heroku are built on top of AWS (amongst thousands of other companies)
- eam 12y agoAnd also many companies are built on top of Heroku... TwitPic on top of Twitter.
- jiggy2011 12y agoThey use aws as infrastructure but aren't inseparably welded to it. They could presumably switch to hosting elsewhere without changing their product itself.
- cnaut 12y agoYou can see them as abstractions of AWS in some ways. An average consumer wouldn't go through the trouble of dealing with AWS to backup their files and even for developers heroku provides a nice level of abstraction
- mirador 12y agoAgreed, that's the way I've seen these companies. AWS has truly become a layer that powers a huge part of the applications on the web.