Late last week the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 reached one trillion (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012). That's 142 objects for every person on Planet Earth or 3.3 objects for every star in our Galaxy. If you could count one object per second it would take you 31,710 years to count them all.
We knew this day was coming! Lately, we've seen the object count grow by up to 3.5 billion objects in a single day (that's over 40,000 new objects per second).
Our customers have taken advantage of S3's relatively new object expiration feature and have used it to delete over 125 billion objects since we released it at the end of last year. In other words, even though we've made it easier to delete objects, the overall object count has continued to grow at a very rapid clip.
Sunil Kumar of OpsLine, formerly of Animoto, told us that “We really love the feature for deleting multiple objects, but the icing on the cake was the object expiration feature. It’s amazing how S3 keeps thinking up and launching features that make our lives even easier.”
On behalf of the Amazon S3 team, I'd like to thank you for all of the amazing ways that you've found to put S3 to use. We really enjoy hearing and reading about your applications.
-- Jeff;
Congrats guys. That's absolutely stunning work.
Now, let's get counting : 1, 2, 3, ... :)
Posted by: Andrew Chilton | June 12, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Congrats to Amazon S3 for such a nice service providing.
From Whole Bucket Explorer team
Posted by: Bucket Explorer | June 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Awesome to see this milestone! How many months until you hit two trillion objects? Nice work folks! :)
Posted by: Matt Corddry | June 12, 2012 at 11:59 PM
Impressive! I'd be interested to learn about the average object size?
Posted by: Peter Sturm | June 13, 2012 at 11:52 PM
nice to see that Hadoop can handle this.
Posted by: Hadoop Cluster Guy | June 16, 2012 at 07:24 AM
Congrats Amazon, great success.
Posted by: A S | June 18, 2012 at 10:41 PM