It has become one of the most successful startups in the world, with over 600 million users uploading more than 400 billion pieces of content. The investment is testament to the health of our Australian business, as well as our confidence in Dropbox’s future growth here. Founded in 2007 by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, Dropbox is a global collaboration tool and file sharing service. “Setting up a local Dropbox environment is a clear sign to the market that Dropbox is a mature and serious SaaS player that is servicing the collaboration needs of Australian organisations of all shapes and sizes. ![]() Swan’s canned quotes in the press release announcing his new job say “Today, we’re responding to one of our customers’ most consistent request - to access and store their Dropbox files in Australia.” To oversee the new service, the company has appointed Dean Swan as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. You can find Amazon Hub Locker locations when selecting a shipping address during the checkout process or when adding a new address in Your Account. ![]() But the company’s presence in Europe has lived in AWS for some time, so Australia is not anomalous. Some CRN readers may recall that Dropbox in 2016 famously quit Amazon Web Services in favour of its own storage infrastructure, which it said would be cheaper to run and just better. That effort will live in Amazon Web Services and go live some time in the second half of 2019. Select the files and folders that you want to transfer to Amazon Drive. Earlier that year, Dropbox a cloud data storage service founded on AWS launched its effort to move the other direction. Now the company’s going all-in with a proper local presence. I figured an S3 bucket is a dead drop but it needs to be configured so that my partner can upload and download the files to it. The company previously operated a “point of presence” that accelerated uploads and downloads for local users. Step 2: Select all files and click the ' Download ' icon to download them to your local PC. Dropbox has decided its Australian customers deserve on-shore storage.
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