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S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

79 points · 120 comments · tkhattra

  1. PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
    > S3’s dominance is due to its many advantages: effectively infinite capacity, high durability, and low per-gigabyte capacity cost.

    It's not "cheap". 6 months of S3 is at around price of outright buying 4TB SSD at retail price. That before you do any IOPS to it

    S3 is terrible deal on any front. it's just easy

    1. CodesInChaos · · focus · HN ↗
      Everything in AWS is expensive. But at least S3 adds a lot of value.
      1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        Ever tried Ceph? It's a bit painful to set up and operate, but it seems to work pretty well.

        (Don't bother with Ceph Object Gateway unless you really really need it - since you're programming your own application, access the storage pool directly with librados)

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