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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by selfhoster11 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @11:40PM (#29223780)
Archivists need access to this data decades, if not a century down the line. I trust the Internet Archive to be around somehow for much longer than S3.
Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati... by Kye on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:39AM (#29227192)
Yep. Companies eventually die. Sometimes they're reborn, like IBM, AOL, and Microsoft, but never with the same priorities. The Internet Archive is almost as old as Amazon and archiving is its entire reason for being. The pendulum will swing back as it always has and send things off big [mainframes, clouds], and S3 will be sunset in favor of serving whatever comes next.