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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by philjohn on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:05PM (#4229811)
It's got an API, you can store data in it and retreive it later by key, since when was S3 not a database? It's a key/value store that lets you store very large values.
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