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Re:In Search of a Faster SQLite by jrochkind1 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @08:19AM (#42441116)
It would be nice if S3 provided similar public guidance. For instance:

> Adding a random string after a common prefix still allows auto-scaling to work, but…

No way to know if that's true of S3's algorithm too without them revealing it.

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Re:In Search of a Faster SQLite by tecleandor on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:59AM (#42441851)
Yep, seems to hint something in the first paragraph of a performance tip [0] but it doesn't specify how does it choose prefixes, or how many prefixes does it shard, or anything...

  0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.html
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