Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody ...

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated ...

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For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...

As part of Amazon's AWS service they provide online storage at very low rates via the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 combined with the S3 Amazon Firefox Add-on provide an extremely easy to use ...

Amazon S3 is a low-cost cloud-based object storage service. This comprehensive guide about Amazon S3 covers pricing details, competitors, and why companies such as Netflix and Tumblr use it. With the ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new tier of its S3 object storage service that is up to 10 times faster than the standard edition.

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As your S3 storage requirements grow, it gets harder to understand exactly what you have, and this is especially true when it crosses multiple regions. This could have broad implications for ...

Existing solutions such as FTP clients that feature S3 support and Jungle Disk allow you to transfer files to and from the Amazon S3 service. But what if you desire more functionality? This is where ...