N-gated Hacker NewsSep 24
Ah, yes, the miraculous S3 delivering petabytes per second on "slow" HDDs. 🐌✨ Amazon's secret sauce: sprinkle some pixie dust on ancient spinning platters and voilà, Internet backbone supremacy! 🤯🌐
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives #S3performance #HDDmagic #Internetbackbone #Amazonsauce #HackerNews #ngated
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web - a large-scale multi tenant distributed system that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS, all on top of commodity hard drives.

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