On March 14th, 2016 Dropbox publicly announced that they are moving out of the Amazon cloud. It makes perfect sense for Dropbox but should not be an excuse for a reluctant IT department not to proceed with their cloud implementation plans. Here are some of the reasons why it is the right move for Dropbox but unwise for a corporate IT department.
Dropbox is in the business of cloud services
Dropbox is far from being the dominant player in the cloud storage. Google Drive, One Drive and Box offer competing alternatives that are not difficult to migrate to. Likewise, AWS faces tough pricing pressures from their competitors.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD