20 Years of Amazon S3

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Amazon S3 launched on March 14, 2006, with a simple announcement, revolutionizing cloud storage.
S3 introduced PUT and GET primitives, focusing on handling undifferentiated heavy lifting for developers.
Five core fundamentals of S3: Security, Durability (11 nines), Availability, Performance, and Elasticity.
S3 has grown from 1 petabyte to over 500 trillion objects, serving 200M+ requests per second globally.
Price dropped from 15 cents to ~2 cents per GB, with storage tiers saving customers $6B+.
S3 maintains backward compatibility; code from 2006 still works today.
Engineering innovations include Rust rewrites, formal methods for correctness, and microservices for durability.
S3's vision: Universal foundation for data and AI workloads, eliminating data movement and copies.
Recent innovations: S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and S3 Metadata for AI and analytics at S3's cost structure.

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