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Dropbox Moves Users' Data Off Amazon S3 to Its Own Infrastructure

Posted by msmash on from the boyhood-to-manhood dept.

Reader Richard_at_work writes: Dropbox today announced that it has been working on a "top secret" project called Magic Pocket for the past two and a half years to get data of more than 500 million users from Amazon S3 to its own custom-built infrastructure. The company says that it has migrated over 90% of its users' data so far. Dropbox's relationship with AWS isn't completely over, however, as they will continue to use AWS for specific regional data stores where there is a requirement.

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  1. ZIP has 4GB, 65535 file limit, needs extensions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unless they get new software that supports the ZIP64 extension probably not.