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Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructur...
If you're ordering 500 petabytes you probably sign a contract with Amazon, and have to let them know in advance if you want out.
mc32
on Sept 16, 2017
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That's a good point --but they didn't start with 500PB, when they first went to AWS they probably only used a few PB to begin with and grew "organically" over the years. But likely still had some contractual stuff for this kind of scenario.
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