Do they de-dupe at all?
oops, I think you found their secret sauce for cost control and economies of scale.
Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
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#12S3 may be my favorite AWS product. It's the epitome of "It just works" design.
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#14Can we update the title? 100T reads as "100 terabytes" instead of "100 trillion" (as per the source).
100 terabytes is 100TB. The T prefix without a unit means 100 trillion, just as 100TB means 100 trillion bytes.
I think it's clear as-is.
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#15> That’s almost 13,000 objects for each person in the world, or 50 objects for every one of the roughly two trillion galaxies (according to this 2021 estimate) in the Universe. That’s mind boggling to think about. I wonder how much paper would’ve been needed to store 100T objects on paper. It’s like the new Library of Alexandria.
> It’s like the new Library of Alexandria. Presumably the Library of Alexandria didn’t have access control lists
If it did then Caesar wouldn’t have had permission to burn it.
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#16Can we update the title? 100T reads as "100 terabytes" instead of "100 trillion" (as per the source).
I read it as 100 trillion. 100TB would be the 'right' suffix for terabytes IMHO.
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#17> That’s almost 13,000 objects for each person in the world, or 50 objects for every one of the roughly two trillion galaxies (according to this 2021 estimate) in the Universe. That’s mind boggling to think about. I wonder how much paper would’ve been needed to store 100T objects on paper. It’s like the new Library of Alexandria.
> It’s like the new Library of Alexandria.
Would be very unfortunate if the S3 story ends like the Library of Alexandria.
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#18I am really getting afraid of this centralization of data.
At the same time, the S3 api is so ubiquitous that there implementations for it in multiple clouds, it frequently comes with hardware storage vendors as well, and there are projects like minio that provide a solution to host your own s3 compatible data architecture.
All things considered, I’m much more concerned about the centralization of eg browser technologies than this.
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#19Can we update the title? 100T reads as "100 terabytes" instead of "100 trillion" (as per the source).
> 100T reads as "100 terabytes"
No, it doesn't. Not more than it reads terameters or teragrams. SI prefixes were not invented specifically for computer memory.