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Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Re: Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Post by thomson »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

You could cover the surface of the earth with furby dolls, and then do it again to create two layers of furby dolls. That's about as many objects.

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Post by tekacs »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

I have a feeling that having 1/8 as many objects as there are dollars in the US National Debt might hit home right about now. ;)

Not least people will have seen the many, many visualisations of that figure. :P

Re: Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Post by mmcnickle »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

If each S3 object was a US penny, you could fill over 350 olympic sized swimming pools.

Re: Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Post by maverhick »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

Make it x times the Brittanica, y times the Oxford Dictionary, stacked z books xy times to the moon

Re: Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Post by columbo »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

My math is probably wrong... but I believe if you ate a twinkie for every request at the end of a year it would take 1,350 Blue Marlin heavy lift ships to move you across the ocean.

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Post by celoyd »

jeffbarr wrote: post #26
sylvinus wrote: post #23

"If you added one S3 object every 60 hours starting at the Big Bang, you'd have accumulated almost two trillion of them by now." That actually sounds underwhelming! IMHO our brains have an easier time thinking "hey, 1 every 60 hours that's not much" compared to figuring out the universe is really incredibly old ;-)

I'm open to more creative analogies. I'll happily send some AWS stickers to the first 5 truly great ones that show up under this reply...

Oh, oh, I like doing these analogies, and we badly need AWS stickers for the office.

A typical grain of beach sand – which must be about the lightest solid thing that’s easy for most people to envision – is 3 mg. That many grains of sand would mass 6e6 kg (6000 metric tons), which in turn is near the upper limit of masses that make sense to most people in everyday terms.

So you could say that if every S3 object were a grain of sand, S3 would be 3× the launch mass of the Space Shuttle, or somewhat more than the gold held in Fort Knox, or as much as the heaviest living thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

And the the 1.1 million requests per second would be about 3.3 kg, or as much as a gallon of milk/water.

Re: Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second

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Post by jl6 »

Smrchy wrote: post #3

It would be really interesting to know the average size of an object and visualize the amount of harddisks it takes to store all this data.

You could then multiply by 2 trillion to work out their total data volume under management, which I believe they consider commercially sensitive information, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
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