Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.

AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with.

It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to the world of cloud. In essence - a scalable multi-tenant storage service which provides interfaces to store and retrieve objects with extremely high availability and durability at a relatively low cost. Customers share all of the underlying hardware.