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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by corford on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:25PM (#15262467)
Pretty much anyone... Hetzner, Linode, Choopa
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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by jimktrains2 on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:33PM (#15262504)
For those I need to run a VPS, which also costs money and has fewer PoP and more mangment overhead.

EDIT: I guess I was talking about CloudFront specifically, not EC2. EC2 is pretty pricey.

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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by corford on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:52AM (#15264035)
Sorry misunderstood. You could try here https://www.cdnperf.com/ and compare egress prices/limits.
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