Amazon’s Web Scale Computing Platform S3 Now Stores 5 Billion Objects
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Amazon founder and CEO in his keynote at Web2.0 Expo has disclosed some astounding facts about the Amazon S3-web services storage platform. According to Bezos S3 now stores 5 billion objects, served 920 million S3 requests on its peak day with 16,607 requests in its peak second. Bezos termed this computing platform as “Web Scale Computing“.
This is astounding take up given the fact that the service was launched just thirteen months back and had just 800 million stored objects in July 2006. Clearly Amazon is trying to do with storage in general what Photobucket is doing with photos, and VideoEgg with Videos, i.e to become an infrastructure for existing destinations.
Although some might still have second thoughts on the viability of “Infrastructure as a Service”, I don’t have a second thought about it.
Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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