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This post celebrates the 20th anniversary of Amazon S3, launched on March 14, 2006, reflecting on its growth and future direction.
•S3 launched with two simple primitives (PUT/GET) guided by five fundamentals: security, durability (11 nines), availability, performance, and elasticity
•Grew from 1 petabyte across 400 nodes to hundreds of exabytes storing 500 trillion objects, serving 200M requests/second globally
•Price dropped ~85% from $0.15/GB to ~$0.02/GB, with customers saving $6B+ via S3 Intelligent-Tiering
•Engineering innovations include Rust rewrites for performance-critical paths, formal methods for correctness proofs, and microservice auditors for durability
•New features: S3 Tables (Apache Iceberg), S3 Vectors (native vector storage for RAG, 2B vectors/index), and S3 Metadata for data discovery
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