Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud(datacenterknowledge.com)

Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud

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tysont14 lat temu

If you're like me and you haven't played with S3 and are wondering what an object is, here's a relevant excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on S3 to add some context:

"S3 stores arbitrary objects (computer files) up to 5 terabytes in size, each accompanied by up to 2 kilobytes of metadata. Objects are organized into buckets (each owned by an Amazon Web Services or AWS account), and identified within each bucket by a unique, user-assigned key. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) which are modified in the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be exported to S3 as bundles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3