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Dropbox Moves Users' Data Off Amazon S3 to Its Own Infrastructure
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.
Does this mean that I'll finally be able to download my files as a .zip archive? I have some directories in Dropbox with a lot of files in them, and I get some bullshit message about the folder being too large to download, or something like that, when I try to use the functionality that exports the directory a .zip archive. It's not even that much data. Maybe like 5 GB in total. But I always get that fucking message, and it never lets me download these directories as an archive. I even bought the pro subscription, and it still won't let me easily download an archive of my directories! I don't want to install the goddamn desktop client just to copy a few directories of files from Dropbox! Isn't that the whole goddamn point of the cloud? I can just use my goddamn web browser to interact with it, instead of a custom native app?! Holy fuck, all I want to do is download an archive of a directory in Dropbox. Why the fuck do they make it impossible to do that easily?! Does this move to their own infrastructure finally make it possible for them to let me download my directories as .zip archives?!