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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

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151 points thunderbong | 5 comments | 30 Jun 25 18:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.01s | source
1. therein ◴[30 Jun 25 21:38 UTC] No.44428181[source]▶
I should have known it was Coinbase. I know that Coinbase used to spend $35,000 a month to back up the data directory of ETH nodes.
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2. mrkramer ◴[01 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44434688[source]▶
>I know that Coinbase used to spend $35,000 a month to back up the data directory of ETH nodes.

They paid backups to whom? Who was vendor....I'm interested.

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3. xp84 ◴[01 Jul 25 15:56 UTC] No.44435193[source]▶
Of all the things Coinbase could spend money on, backups may be the smartest! Imagine if they lost a few billion dollars worth of crypto to a faulty SSD or something!
4. therein ◴[01 Jul 25 17:51 UTC] No.44436387[source]▶
Amazon. They put it on an EBS volume and kept it around.
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5. mrkramer ◴[01 Jul 25 19:11 UTC] No.44437101{3}[source]▶
Ah ok, I thought it was some startup.