TLDR Tech / DevOps
Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what's next
Amazon S3 celebrated its 20th anniversary, having grown from storing 1 petabyte across 400 nodes at launch in 2006 to now holding over 500 trillion objects and handling 200 million requests per second across hundreds of exabytes of data. Despite this massive scale, AWS has reduced S3 pricing by about 85% (from 15 cents to just over 2 cents per gigabyte) while maintaining complete backward compatibility with code written two decades ago.
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