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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by 908B64B197 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:16PM (#27309249)
DropBox did it [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by kwindla on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:07AM (#27311917)
And then moved back: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dropbox-s3/
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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by sam_lowry_ on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:17AM (#27312588)
I am sure they could negotiate excellent conditions because of their previous setup.
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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by AtlasBarfed on Sunday May 30, 2021 @08:23PM (#27338467)
Every truly large corp should have inhouse options for negotiations with AWS.
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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by nerdponx on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:15AM (#27314447)
For analytics. I don't think the entire thing runs on AWS anymore.
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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by musicale on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:09PM (#27310221)
"Why Dropbox decided to drop AWS and build its own infrastructure and network"

tl;dr: to save money (and to fix issues and irritations with AWS)

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by redwood on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:42AM (#27313792)
And stopped innovating at around that time
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