For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody outside the engineering teams notices. I sat ...

AWS S3 Annotations allow up to 1 GB of structured metadata per object. This simplifies data management and AI workflows.

Amazon has released some fairly impressive numbers showcasing the growth of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) over the years. By the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects ...

Large chunks of public cloud storage are built around object storage. Block and file are dominant in the datacentre, but in the cloud, where the need is for large amounts of relatively cheap storage ...

Amazon S3, the cloud storage service of Amazon Web Services, now stores about 262 billion objects, up about 100-fold over just four years ago. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Friday said in ...

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage platform S3 or Simple Storage Service today stores over 100 trillion objects. S3 was AWS' first generally available service that promised developers cheap ...

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Amazon's Jeff Barr noted this morning that its S3 online storage service reached one trillion objects, or files, last week, impressive growth for a service that launched in 2006. Barr writes on the ...