One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this
that revealed some rather creative abuse of the service, including cryptocurrency mining, resale of Dropbox storage to third parties, and “unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases.”
“In recent months, we’ve seen a surge of this behavior,” Team Dropbox explained. “We’ve observed that customers like these frequently consume thousands of times more storage than our genuine business customers.” The advisory reveals that just one percent of Dropbox customers consume over 35 terabytes per license. As Dropbox’s
tells us that the Advanced plan costs $24/user/month, with a minimum of three users, it’s been possible to store 35TB or much, much, more for $72 a month.. Speaking of the Amazonian cloud, its Simple Storage Service charges $0.023/GB/month for the first 50TB you shove into the Amazonian cloud or $805 a month to store 35TB . Dropbox’s in-house storage would have to be vastly more efficient that Amazon’s for it to turn a profit on the customers it feels abuse its generosity.
Interestingly, Dropbox’s alert reveals the company saw more of this abusive behavior after other cloud storage services ditched their unlimited tiers; Google did so for educational institutions using its Workspaces service in
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