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 foobiekr on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:37PM (#16460386)

AWS only provides optionality if you don't get deeply into the AWS services. If you do you find that optionality is absent.

A startup I talked to not too long ago has a revenue of around 1M a month - pretty great. Their Amazon bill is around 1M a month - not so good. Their entire architecture is one AWS service strung into another - no optionality at all.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by breischl on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:25PM (#16460657)

I think you're talking about a different kind of optionality than the parent post. That was talking about option to expand/contract capacity, change infrastructure, or all the usual "elasticity" that they tout.

You're talking about vendor lock-in. Which is a totally valid point and something to be aware of, but basically orthogonal.

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