The actual data resided in AWS S3 storage containers. Historically, Dropbox has used their own internal hardware and software to manage metadata about the files that they are storing for customers. During this timeframe, the amount of storage required for customer data has increased from 40 petabytes to 500 petabytes in order to serve their 500 million users. The project, named “Magic Pocket”, called for in-house developed software and hardware to be built to support their customer needs.ĭropbox has seen 12x growth since 2012. The blog post recounts all of the activities that have allowed them to achieve their goal of serving 90% of all user data exclusively from their own data centers. On MaDropbox discussed their migration away from Amazon Web Services (AWS) on their blog. This article provides some contrast from that article and focuses on an organization that is moving away from the public cloud to pursue their own internal solution for delivering cloud–based file services at scale. Recently, InfoQ published an article on Netflix completing their migration to the cloud after more than 7 years.
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