Dropbox saved $75 million moving away from Amazon AWS to colocation

eva2000 · Feb 26, 2018

Indeed the high cost of Amazon AWS Cloud services might not be ideal for some large corporations. Dropbox has revealed they'll save $75 million over 2 yrs by moving off Amazon AWS Cloud servces to colocation based hosting !

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years, the company said in its S-1 statement Friday.

Starting in 2015, Dropbox began to move users of its file-storage service away from AWS’s S3 storage service and onto its own custom-designed infrastructure and software, and the cost benefits were immediate. From 2015 to 2016, Dropbox saved $39.5 million in the cost of revenue bucket thanks to the project, which reduced spending on “our third-party datacenter service provider” by $92.5 million offset by increased expenses of $53 million for its own data centers. The following year in 2017, it saved an additional $35.1 million in operating costs beyond the 2016 numbers.
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