Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend for the long term?

Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by Veratyr on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:22PM (#9589271)

Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by akhatri_aus on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:53PM (#9589516)

Dropbox doesn't use S3 anymore. They did initially. That being said S3 is a pretty good solution.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by kooshball on Friday May 22, 2015 @01:15PM (#9589682)

What do they use now?

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by toomuchtodo on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:29PM (#9591790)

Possibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by storer on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:24PM (#9589289)

Just because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by danso on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:29PM (#9589328)

Honestly curious...what's your knowledge of the company named Amazon? That is, how much smaller do you think Amazon is (by any metric, market cap, revenue, size of engineering operations) compared to Dropbox?

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