Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Service reports that Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is now storing more than 29 billion, an increase of 7 billion from the previous quarter. “As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that’s over 4 objects for every person now on Earth,”
Jeff writes [1]. At peak usage, S3 is handling more than 70,000 requests per second.
So what’s next? Amazon is lowering prices on S3 storage, with a new four-tier pricing plan that takes effect on Nov. 1. Customers storing more than 500 terabytes will get a rate of 12 cents per gigabyte.
When Amazon S3 was launched in
March 2006 [2], we wondered whether it would be a disruptive force or non-event. “It’s too early to say whether S3 (and the similar services that will certainly follow) is the start of something big or an experiment,” I wrote at the time. With 29 billion storage objects, it’s definitely something big.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] Jeff writes: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/10/amazon-s3---now.html
[2] March 2006: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/03/14/amazon-s3-disruptive-force-or-non-event/
[3] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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