Comments on: Amazon S3 Now Hosts 100 Billion Objects

By: From Scale-Out to Big Data to the Cloud | SiliconANGLE

From Scale-Out to Big Data to the Cloud | SiliconANGLE — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:30:01 +0000

[...] larger than anything encountered in enterprise data centers. It’s not just capacity either: Amazon reportedly hosts over 100 billion objects, far more than any conventional or scale out NAS [...]

By: What Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush : Cloud «

What Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush : Cloud « — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:01:41 +0000

[...] the cloud is the smaller but faster growing deployment method compared to on-site. The rapid rise in the number of objects on Amazon S3 to well over 100 billion is just one indicator of this. But conventional enterprises [...]

By: Things that were not immediately obvious to me » Blog Archive » 99.999999999%

Mon, 31 May 2010 21:25:39 +0000

[...] — or, more precisely, not as close to 100% as you’d like. Reportedly S3 is now storing 100 billion objects, so about one would get lost every year. (More generally, I calculate that there’s [...]

By: How Cloud, Private Cloud & Utility Infrastructure Are Different » Welcome to privatecloud.com

Tue, 04 May 2010 13:34:59 +0000

[...] actually gets to talk to a local help center at the Amazon Data Center. Think it ain’t so? – Amazon Web Services has ‘quietly passed an interesting benchmark: the company’s S3 storage service now hosts more [...]

By: How Cloud, Private Cloud & Utility Infrastructure Are Different « CapZero's Utility Infrastructure Blog

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:52:25 +0000

[...] gets to talk to a local help center at the Amazon Data Center. Think it ain’t so? – Amazon Web Services has ‘quietly passed an interesting benchmark: the company’s S3 storage service now hosts [...]