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Smart man. :)

I get it - but I'm arguing that the amount of egress traffic Glacier customers (in aggregate) are likely to drive is nothing in comparison to what S3 and/or EC2 already does (in ag…

That would definitely be cool. Pretty unlikely, however. When it comes to hardware, they like to keep each service's resources separate. While a given box or rack many handle many …

Ah, right - definitely.

Not saying it couldn't be very useful for the data-heavy consumer. Just guessing this is more of an enterprise play than anything else. :)

It may not make sense today. Amazon is notorious for betting on the far future. They're also raising the bar on what archival data storage services could offer. When you ship your …

I don't think they're loss-leadering on storage, but if they are, they don't think they will be for long. AWS (EC2 and S3 in particular) does very well when it comes to profit marg…

Almost spot on. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065

Close. Tiered, yes. But remember who we're talking about. First, no tape. The areal storage density of tape is lower than hard disks. Too many moving parts involved. Too hard to pe…

See my post up top: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065

Data cryonics indeed. One of the early names kicked around (and, indeed, its working name for over a year) was Cold Storage .

Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.

Dropbox stores their stuff in S3 a little different. It's not a 1:1 correspondence between user files and objects under Dropbox's S3 account. The fact that they use S3 as their bac…

He could just turn on object versioning.

Amazon has ridiculous internal bandwidth. The costly bit is external. The time delay is largely internal buffer time - they need to pull your data out of Glacier (a somewhat slow p…

Why wouldn't they stage in S3? :)

Former S3 employee here. I was on my way out of the company just after the storage engineering work was completed, before they had finalized the API design and pricing structure, s…

Curious video. While sketching out Google's Gmail UI, they place a sticky over the advertisement area that says, "Creepy ads." Yet what do I see upon logging in to Outlook.com? Cra…

Wait, so 95% of your customers experience a TTFB of less than 500 microseconds (tp95 of 450 microseconds)? I just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Because that's …

I must say - that kind of perf is superb, though top percentile and averages aren't super representative of the average customer's experience. What are your tp50 and tp90 like? You…

Also, that "2 billion requests per day" might sound silly to someone who serves that in an hour...