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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by AlexB138 on Saturday November 17, 2018 @07:45PM (#18478244)
"File Storage" is a bad idea for the same reasons comparing to FTP is. It might work for a near layman, but it can actually communicate misinformation to someone who knows slightly more about storage. Specifically, S3 is Object Storage, as opposed to File or Block Storage.

This is why "simple descriptions" are hard. Leaving nuance behind makes a lot of room for confusion.

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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by Aeolun on Saturday November 17, 2018 @09:20PM (#18478544)
Since S3 was more or less the first service to have the concept of Object storage, I think we would have been able to deal with ‘File’ storage.

Also, I think the difference is more between filesystem and object storage. You are still uploading files to both.

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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by sam0x17 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @01:00AM (#18479075)
Yes, I'm still waiting for an "unlimited pay-as-you-go SFTP service" that uses something like S3 as a backend, but you connect with SFTP.
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