Re:Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
by puzzle on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:09PM
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You can make educated guesses about which range the compute/storage ratio is in if you look at e.g. public information from talks like
http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...
(it has other useful information that might not have been mentioned anywhere before, like the crazy Colossus on Colossus... or D, the GFS chunkserver replacement)
You can use that to revisit Randall Munroe's estimates: https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/ You can infer from some of the comments that e.g. very dense disk capacity is not a good idea. There's more, of course, but I can't go into details (ex-Googler).
Also, there's a Reinvent talk from several years ago with "8 exabytes" in the title, so surely Google and Amazon both have many exabytes by this point.