Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS

Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by phamilton on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:42AM (#16459420)

While S3 was the bulk of it, I wouldn't be surprised if they had used DynamoDB for metadata storage, SQS for job queuing (pushing share data down to clients asynchronously), SNS for broadcasting pub/sub, Redshift for data analysis, ASG for deployments, etc.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by scapecast on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:04AM (#16459522)

cost for both DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift can both get out of hands real quickly. I've seen it first hand. With Redshift, the problem is that data teams do not adjust the default configuration of 5 query slots. So when things slow down, instead of increasing concurrency for a given node, they add more nodes. I've seen monthly invoices of $100K+ for a workload that could have been done with less than a $2,000 / month.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by alexnewman on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:39PM (#16460397)

metadata on mysql on bare metal last i checked. it wasn’t on ec2

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