The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud Empire

wired.com

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The article says: "Transferring four petabytes of data, it turned out, took about a day."

Quite a feat - How did they manage to get 4 PB from S3 in a day, over the internet?

I honestly expect that they wouldn't have used the Internet to transfer a volume that large.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes" and all that sort of thing.