The number of objects stored in Amazon S3 continues to grow:
Here are the stats, measured at the end of the fourth quarter of each year:
- 2006 - 2.9 billion objects
- 2007 - 14 billion objects
- 2008 - 40 billion objects
- 2009 - 102 billion objects
- 2010 - 262 billion objects
The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second.
If you want to work on game-changing, world-scale services like this, you should think about applying for one of the open positions on the S3 team:
- Software Development Manager
- Software Development Engineer
- Senior Software Development Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Systems Administrator
- Business Development Manager
- Product Manager
-- Jeff;
Note: The original graph included an extraneous (and somewhat confusing) data point for Q3 of 2010. I have updated the graph for clarity.
Any clues to average object size in S3?
Posted by: Mike | January 28, 2011 at 02:35 PM
Those numbers are extremely impressive. I'd be curious to hear about the growth of CloudFront.
Posted by: Matt | January 30, 2011 at 01:39 AM
Can you also share with us the numbers from EC2?
Posted by: kia | January 30, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Hi Kia, we don't currently publish any metrics on the use of EC2.
Posted by: Jeff Barr | January 30, 2011 at 02:00 PM