“They have decided to move more of their US storage on-premise because – as a storage products company – it is more strategic for them to own their own storage,” the source continued. In parallel with its push to store more of its user data on premise, Dropbox is expanding its use of AWS outside of the US, a source told Computer Weekly. The news follows on from Dropbox’s announcement on 7 March 2016 that 500 million people worldwide have signed up to use the file share and sync service since its launch in 2008, with 75% of them based outside of the US. We can leverage our scale and particular use case to customise both the hardware and software, resulting in better unit economics.” Dropbox continues AWS partnership “As one of the world’s leading providers of cloud services, our use case for block storage is unique. Bringing storage in-house allows us to customise the entire stack end-to-end and improve the performance for our particularly use case,” wrote Gupta. “One of the key differentiators is performance.
Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches.Dropbox users are petitioning the cloud storage giant to consider open-sourcing its iOS email app Mailbox, after announcing plans to shut it down in 2016.In a blog post, Akhil Gupta, vice-president of engineering and infrastructure at Dropbox, said – given the sheer amounts of data Dropbox is responsible for – building its own infrastructure makes good economic sense for the firm. The company was initially working towards having 90% of its users’ data stored on the infrastructure by the end of October 2015, but completed the process several weeks ahead of schedule. This saw the firm test the process of mirroring its data between two regional locations, before moving to store and serve files to customers from its in-house infrastructure in February 2015. The shift towards moving more of its infrastructure on-premise began with a soft launch in August 2014. Over the past two and a half years, the company has embarked on a push to wind down its reliance on S3 by ploughing investment into building an in-house storage system of its own, it revealed. Behind the scenes, the latter files were stored in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). The firm previously used on-premise datacentres to host its web servers, as well as the metadata attached to the data and documents its users upload.
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