This was not a huge operation, yet what they were trying to do was build something themselves at web scale that only a small number of companies with much larger teams had tried to this point. We’re talking about a company that had 1500 employees, with just around a dozen on the infrastructure team.
The first step was building the infrastructure to replace it. When they made the transition, they had to move an epic 500 petabytes - that’s five followed by 17 zeros - that had been sitting on AWS servers. The latest numbers are 500 million users and 200,000 business customers.
As you can imagine, it took a monumental effort, but the company believed that the advantages of controlling its own destiny would be worth all of the challenges they faced to get there.įor starters, a company like Dropbox is dealing with a huge number of customers storing an enormous amount of data. A few years ago Dropbox decided it was going to move the majority of its infrastructure requirements from AWS into its own data centers. There is always a tension inside companies about whether to build or to buy, whatever the need.
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