The company said it plans to invest in its own infrastructure and it will partner with Amazon “where it makes sense” for instance, later this year Dropbox will expand its partnership with AWS to store data in Germany for European business customers that request it. Indeed, a hybrid approach is what Dropbox’s infrastructure will look like for the foreseeable future. Amazon Web Services has, and continues to be, an invaluable partner-we couldn’t have grown as fast as we did without a service like AWS.” We were an early adopter of Amazon S3, which provided us with the ability to scale our operations rapidly and reliably. “We’ve always had a hybrid cloud architecture, hosting metadata and our web servers in data centers we manage, and storing file content on Amazon. “Dropbox stores two kinds of data: file content and metadata about files and users,” Gupta said in a blog post. You have to seriously consider all of the costs involved before you start moving data around. On the other hand, hiring and retaining the people to create a custom-built infrastructure is expensive. Dropbox VP of engineering Akhil Gupta rightly said “obody is running a cloud business as a charity…there is some margin somewhere.” In 2014, Moz CEO Sarah Bird said that it was spending “$6.2 million at Amazon Web Services, and a mere $2.8 million on own data centers.” Simply put, the cloud killed its margins.ĭespite the AWS price drops over the years, Dropbox told WIRED that it gets “substantial economic value” by operating its own infrastructure. This narrative certainly is nothing new several years ago marketing software startup Moz started to move away from AWS cloud in favor of its private cloud. While AWS is convenient and enables customers to spin instances on and off, it is not cheap. Dropbox, and others, are doing what they can to answer it. If you’re wondering how it’s possible to outgrow a global infrastructure like AWS, which spans 12 geographic regions with 5 more to be added this year, it’s a fair question. With 500 million users, Dropbox has grown considerably since its launch in 2008, and now 90 percent of its data is stored on its custom-built infrastructure.
Essentially, the San Francisco-based cloud storage company has mostly outgrown AWS cloud, and for the past two-and-a-half years has been building its own infrastructure.
Let me explain: WIRED published an article on Monday outlining how Dropbox had decided to move most of its infrastructure away from AWS cloud. As Amazon Web Services was blowing out the candles on its 10th birthday cake, AWS customer Dropbox was not afraid to be a bit of a party pooper.
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