Amazon S3 - Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second

Amazon Web Services is currently storing two trillion objects in its S3 cloud storage service, double the number of just one year ago (it took the first six years of the service to reach the first trillion).    Peak loads are often reaching 1.1 million requests/second.

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