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Posted by Amontillado
Sep 19, 2018 at 03:40 PM
If I read between the lines correctly, Evernote moved its services to Google Cloud about a year ago, which was probably a little late for them.
Even cloud providers put their (your) stuff in “the cloud.” Dropbox is, I think, hosted on Amazon Web Services. Netflix is what pushed AWS to bulk up on resources. I think pretty much all of Netflix is on AWS.
Posted by satis
Sep 19, 2018 at 07:51 PM
Amontillado wrote:
>Dropbox is,
>I think, hosted on Amazon Web Services.
They departed from amazon a couple of years ago.
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
> Netflix is what pushed AWS to bulk up on resources.
Interestingly, Dropbox left Amazon at the same time (maybe the same month) that Netflix completed its move to amazon.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Sep 19, 2018 at 08:17 PM
It doesn’t make sense for someone who is so into storage to move into the cloud. The pricing of AWS is simply absurd when you compare it with the cost of a Storinator and your own hosting. Evernote should be large enough and have petabytes of data to do this on their own.
But there is one important reason, they still don’t have a break even (yes they say otherwise but there are so many ways to tweak it) and need to raise fundings and cloud is much more “sellable” to investors then using your own tech. It’s a clear warning sign. In the end they are a storage service company with just a good frontend.
Posted by Amontillado
Sep 20, 2018 at 02:16 AM
satis wrote:
>They departed from amazon a couple of years ago.
>
>https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
>
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Interesting article - thanks. I had heard Dropbox and Netflix were on AWS from a consultant working with my employer to move some services to cloud providers. Glad I remembered to say “I think,” not “I know,” without good fact checking.
Interesting, too, about Dropbox’s experimentation with languages. Guido Rossum, Python’s Benevolent Dictator For Life, works at Dropbox these days. I think. I confess I haven’t confirmed that.
Posted by NickG
Sep 20, 2018 at 07:52 AM
The other important reason is that AWS or similar are variable costs - if you’re struggling for finance, you may not want to or be able to accept the fixed cost of establishing your own data centre(s).
Lothar Scholz wrote:
It doesn’t make sense for someone who is so into storage to move into
>the cloud. The pricing of AWS is simply absurd when you compare it with
>the cost of a Storinator and your own hosting. Evernote should be large
>enough and have petabytes of data to do this on their own.
>
>But there is one important reason, they still don’t have a break even
>(yes they say otherwise but there are so many ways to tweak it) and need
>to raise fundings and cloud is much more “sellable” to investors then
>using your own tech. It’s a clear warning sign. In the end they are a
>storage service company with just a good frontend.