Dropboxes "Magic Pocket" gets them off of Amazon S3

Richard_at_work writes: Dropbox today announced that it has been working on a "top secret" project called Magic Pocket for the past couple of years to get it off its Amazon S3 addiction, culminating in them moving over 400 petabytes of user data to multiple internal data centres and a custom mass storage hardware and software solution.

Dropboxes relationship with AWS isn't completely over however, as they will continue to use AWS for specific regional data stores where there is a requirement, such as the one currently available in Germany for example.