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driverdan
on June 15, 2012
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Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
Because S3 makes a terrible CDN. The latency is bad and can vary significantly.
Using it as a CDN for very large files is fine but for standard static web assets it's terrible.
ceejayoz
on June 15, 2012
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Where was S3 mentioned? The post said CloudFront.
treyp
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Dropbox uses S3
ceejayoz
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Yes, but not directly. They've built or are using a CDN in front of S3, just like CloudFront.
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Using it as a CDN for very large files is fine but for standard static web assets it's terrible.