The ability to have files saved in the cloud, yet with the ease of use that comes with having them saved locally, is quite revolutionary. Dropbox’s journey took two and a half years and required investments in personnel to figure out how infrastructure should be customized and other workers to manage their data centers.Dropbox is amazing.
And most companies would not see a huge benefit from customizing infrastructure to tailor it to their specific needs, Gupta says. Not every company has the scale Dropbox operates at. “By optimizing the stack and customizing the infrastructure to our use case, we were able to provide a key differentiator in the market and a key value to our users,” Gupta says. Secondly, Gupta wanted to have end-to-end control of the infrastructure so that he could control the performance, reliability and overall user experience. “The scale that we’re operating on is one that very few other companies will get to,” Gupta says. Dropbox has 500 million users and is storing 500 petabytes of data. There were two factors that made Akhil Gupta, vice president of Infrastructure for Dropbox, realize that the company should get out of the cloud. The company announced in a blog post this week that it would build up its own infrastructure stack and move mostly off of AWS.Ĭould this be a sign that as companies grow their cloud that it could be more efficient to build their own cloud? If so, what is that cut-off point where its more efficient to not use the public cloud? A rapidly growing cloud storage startup relies on Amazon Web Services’ cloud for most of its infrastructure needs, allowing Dropbox’s engineers to focus on its product and not investing in costly infrastructure to run it.īut DropBox has decided it would rather be single. At first it seemed the relationship would last forever.
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