![]() ![]() ![]() We expect to continue to realize benefits from expanding our internal infrastructure due to our operating scale and lower unit costs. In recent years, we have taken several steps to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure that supports our platform includes an initiative that focused on migrating the vast majority of user data stored on the infrastructure of third-party service providers to our own lower cost, custom-built infrastructure in colocation facilities that we directly lease and operate. On of Dropbox’s S-1 SEC form is a section titled Infrastructure Optimization. Now over 90% of its operations take place on their own infrastructure.ĭropbox filed its IPO last week, and in the filing, we were able to peel back the curtain and see exactly how much they saved because of the switch. Dropbox was outgrowing AWS with over 500 million users, AWS was getting expensive for the cloud storage company. Two years ago, WIRED Magazine published an article about Dropbox moving their infrastructure from Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud to colocation data centers.
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