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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by brown9-2 on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:18AM (#13560313)
You can even move to your own datacenter at some point (relatively) easily.

Dropbox built out their own environment (and did it migrating 500PB out of S3)

Like most discussions in this thread, this statement is way too general. Dropbox moved their storage from S3. What about EC2 or other AWS services they were using? Did they abandon all of those too?

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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by toomuchtodo on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:24AM (#13560360)
You're overestimating the amount of work it takes to run compute on anyone other than Google or AWS.
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