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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by bsenftner on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:08AM (#15263531)
Please, how fucking stupid. Of course they moved as much as possible off AWS, and only use AWS for new and experimental services. The markup of cloud servers is immoral, and the brainwashing that cloud services are a value at all is a testimony to how many people simply do not do the math.
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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by StreamBright on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:29AM (#15263596)
I am not sure what you are talking about. They moved out the 500PB data storage because ______at that scale______ it is cheaper to run it on your own hardware. This implies few things like having engineers with skills that are really not easy to find for starting and a bunch of other challenges that you need to solve.
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