The Infinite Drive: S3 and Cloud Object Storage

About this episode

The episode discusses Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), its architecture, functionality, and usage.

For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or at least we think it is, because it is super freakin' huge. We talk about how it's built, how it works, and how people use it. Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3How AWS S3 Achieves 1 Petabyte Per Second on Hard Disk DrivesUsing Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3Pictur...

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Aker, Mike Mull

Topics covered

• cloud storage
• Amazon S3
• technology
• data storage
• cloud services

Keywords

• Amazon S3
• cloud storage
• data management
• AWS
• object storage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, AWS

Products: Simple Storage Service

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