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Re:Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 by derefr on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:43AM (#9563205)
Honestly, I'm surprised this is built into S3, rather than CloudFront. Ideally, you want your object replicated to a bunch of edge nodes, which then all simultaneously join into a single swarm as seeds.
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Re:Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 by ianlevesque on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:47AM (#9563220)
It predates CloudFront.
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Re:Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 by rossk on Monday May 18, 2015 @09:22AM (#9564239)
Pretty sure it was part of the initial, day one S3 release.
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Re:Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 by sparaker on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:50AM (#9563226)
I would like to see that too.
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