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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by robotresearcher on Thursday March 26, 2015 @03:59PM (#9272630)
Does no one have their own boxes on their own site any more?
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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by x0x0 on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:49PM (#9272994)
Getting serious power / ac / battery switch-over / TB/s internet is a lot of work, hence datacenters. If you're under thousands of boxes, it's not cost effective.
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