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In S3 simplicity is table stakes
From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.
I was recently chatting with Simon Hørup Eskildsen, the CEO of Turbopuffer — which is a really nicely designed serverless vector database built on top of S3 — and he mentioned that he has a script that monitors and sends him notifications about S3 “What’s new” posts on an hourly basis. There are all the examples that I mentioned above, from scaling bucket limits to enhancing performance, as well as countless other improvements especially around features like cross-region replication, object lock, and versioning that all provide very deliberate guardrails for data protection and durability. Tables are among the most popular data types on S3, and unlike video, images, or PDFs, they involve a complex cross-object structure and the need support conditional operations, background maintenance, and integrations with other storage-level features.
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