Re:Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever
by axomhacker on Friday January 28, 2011 @07:33PM
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Sure, depending on the definition of little better:
Yearly growth (# of objects): 2.9 > 14 > 40 > 102 > 262
Yearly growth (as a ratio): 4.8 > 2.85 > 2.55 > 2.56
Also - this is just the number of objects stored (not put in ever) Obviously because storage costs, folks have purging solutions. It'd be interesting to see a similar trend for requests/sec.
Re:Amazon S3 - Bigger and Busier Than Ever
by turbodog on Friday January 28, 2011 @07:45PM
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Is cloud storage the factor that is driving companies to AWS? I'm sure that's huge for NetFlix, but they are an outlier. My bet would be on EC2 usage as being a better growth metric.
Well, to pick a high-profile AWS-user here: all of Dropbox runs on S3, and apparently a bit of EC2, last I saw. Not that I think they account for a truly significant amount of Amazon's traffic, but they're not small-time either.
That's it? They're an enormous company and seem to me to be by far the most-mentioned storage option. I'm surprised they're not a heck of a lot higher, especially given that a number of very popular cloud services sit right on top of S3 and store many gigabytes and hammer it with requests.
Oh well. If they maintain that growth, they'll own everything soon enough. I don't mean to imply yearly-doubling is bad in any way, just that I would've expected more by now.