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Behind AWS S3's Scale
This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with. It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to the
In essence - a scalable multi-tenant storage service which provides interfaces to store and retrieve objects with extremely high availability and durability at a relatively low cost. Hot spots are particularly troublesome and worth avoiding, as they introduce cascading delays throughout the system and in the worst case can result in unpleasant domino effects. AWS shared a simple real-world example where failures accumulate - imagine the data center is in a hot climate and a power outage occurs.
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