On March 14, 2006, Amazon S3 launched with two operations. Today, the service stores 500 trillion objects and is the industry ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new tool for customers that makes it simple to prepare the same dataset for multiple application requirements. The S3 Object Lambda tool works by retrieving ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...