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Dropbox should be building their own data centers. At their scale, relying on amazon sounds like a bad longterm strategic move.


Amazon recently announced their Virtual Private Clouds (http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/) for enterprises that will not keep a customer on multi-tenant infrastructure if they wish otherwise.

In any case, except for Google/Facebook-scale data and content providers, having your own datacenter for 25m users sounds premature. Many large enterprises use private clouds hosted and managed by service providers like IBM or Verizon; this makes sense when their core business is their service, not the infrastructure itself.


maybe that's where the money is going to go




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