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Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.
- storer 11y agoJust because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.
- danso 11y agoHonestly curious...what's your knowledge of the company named Amazon? That is, how much smaller do you think Amazon is (by any metric, market cap, revenue, size of engineering operations) compared to Dropbox?
- akhatri_aus 11y agoDropbox doesn't use S3 anymore. They did initially. That being said S3 is a pretty good solution.
- kooshball 11y agoWhat do they use now?
- toomuchtodo 11y agoPossibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.