cloud-repatriation

A scaled-down clone of Dropbox’s Magic Pocket, the in-house block storage system Dropbox built to move off AWS S3. It reimplements the core architecture, justifies each design decision against Dropbox’s public sources, and benchmarks latency, scaling and cost against cloud providers and an on-prem estimate.

Enterprise IT framework for cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and AI infrastructure decisions. Workload placement · Cybersecurity · AI governance · BYOD · NIST-aligned. By 4th and Bailey.

How I cut a production cloud bill by about 72%: a sanitised case study of an AWS-to-Hetzner migration, with the method and its limits.