How Dropbox Saved Millions By Migrating From On-Prem to AWS

In 2020, Dropbox was faced with a choice: either double down on our on prem datacenters, or migrate portions to the cloud. This video is about how Dropbox migrated an on-prem data store to a cloud based solution using Amazon DynamoDB and S3. Learn about the challenges the Dropbox team faced and how they addressed them using cloud services.
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[@stephenmiracle8101]

Didn't Dropbox move back out of the cloud and into their own data centers? It would be cool to see a follow-up on that decision process and how that worked.

[@BeABetterDev]

If they did, its time for another video! "On Prem to Cloud to On Prem Again!"

[@mybluesky123]

I heard the same a few years ago, not sure what happened.

[@griffincosgrove8927]

@@BeABetterDev they moved at least part of their infra back to a data center.

[@madrag]

@@mybluesky123 they got a bill from AWS 😅

[@shilpasingh1204]

How about update or delete an existing record? Wouldn't that need to read from cold data and then put in hot data?

[@miluna94]

Could you explain how to setup those 6 tables in Dynamodb and how to setup the scans through them efficiently with a single endpoint??

[@erikbustos2187]

great video!