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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by s_dev on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:31PM (#25270195)
Surely S3 is a pebble compared to Dropbox?
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by foota on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:41PM (#25270320)
You're probably backwards there.

Edit: in 2016 Dropbox stored 400PB (https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/magic-pocket-infrastruct...), in 2018 S3 was storing multiple exabytes (https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-Amazon-S3-across-all-region...)

I suspect multiple exabytes is a low ball.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by sethhochberg on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:48PM (#25270418)
Plus, that 400PB Dropbox was storing in 2016 was - until around that same time, when they built their Magic Pocket system - itself stored on S3.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by s_dev on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:36AM (#25275474)
>You're probably backwards there.

Probably -- came back to my comment 24 hours later and realized I mixed up DB and S3 in the sentence.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by TheFlyingFish on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:45PM (#25270382)
I'm not as sure about that, given the extent of the chaos that ensues every time S3 goes down for half a day.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by patmorgan23 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:31PM (#25272955)
People don't put big data warehouses on Dropbox, they do in S3.
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