Amazon S3 – Setting the benchmark in storage at scale

July 17, 2006

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon S3 Shoots, Scores, Soars: “Developers have been pouring data into Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) at a prodigious rate. In fact, there are now over 800 million discrete objects stored in S3.”

This is definitely something to take note of. The economics are dramatic. When Tim O’Reilly talks about a key differentiator being operational efficiency, it really does matter.