The initiative, referred to (rather modestly) in the company’s S-1 SEC form as Infrastructure Optimization, included designing custom hardware and all the software that would tie it – and whatever AWS infrastructure Dropbox still uses – together into a single, highly distributed computing platform.Īs the company’s CTO and former Facebook engineer Aditya Agarwal told Wired back in 2016, “Nobody is running a cloud business as a charity. Related: Different Folks: Selling Google to the CIO That’s 15 percent of the $500 million it currently plans to raise in the public offering. Over two years, it turns out, Dropbox shaved $74.6 million off its operational expenses primarily because of the move. In those documents, it disclosed the impact the move has had on its bottom line. Last week, the popular cloud storage and collaboration service filed documents for an IPO.
About two years ago, Dropbox moved most of its data – including users’ data – from Amazon Web Services, which it had relied on since its founding, to its own custom infrastructure in colocation data centers.
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