{"id":747154,"date":"2013-04-18T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=632182"},"modified":"2013-04-18T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:56:31","slug":"amazon-s3-goes-exponential-now-stores-2-trillion-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747154","title":{"rendered":"Amazon S3 goes exponential, now stores 2 trillion objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took six years for Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service, or S3, to grow to storing 1 trillion objects in June 2012. In a blog post on Thursday<\/a>, however — less than a year later — the company announced the service is now housing more than 2 trillion objects.<\/p>

I’m not certain what this exponential growth means. It probably means a lot of people are using Amazon Web Services. It probably means they’re building a lot of next-generation applications storing a whole lot of photos and other things (I’m thinking of Pinterest<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, Dropbox<\/a>, you name it). It probably also means big data is for real in the cloud, as Amazon S3 is the default storage system for AWS’s Elastic MapReduce Hadoop service.<\/p>

Whatever it means, though, 2 trillion is a lot of anything and probably means Jeff Bezos was right to spend so much time talking AWS<\/a> in discussing the company’s annual report. At an estimated $2 billion or so in revenue and storing probably a not insignificant amount of data for so many fast-growing web services, AWS looks to be around for the long haul.<\/p>

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