In an article from Geekwire, Dropbox announces cost savings by moving away from AWS and towards an in-house solution.
Dropbox was an early adopter of a cloud solution for a revolutionary product. In essence, they took Amazon’s AWS S3 service, which is used to store flat files, and built a product that was easy to use. I’ve been a user and fan of Dropbox for years, and it is still my primary platform for sharing files among all my devices.