Is there any way we can get an approximate number of total objects in AWS S3 worldwide(stored by all companies)? This is to just put a scale to the vastness of S3 in perspective for a presentation. I see Amazon shared the number as 2 Trillion as of 2013 but, am sure that would have increased by atleast 10-20x by now. is there any site where we can lookup and get an approximate aggregated numbers? Looked up online but did not get useful info. Any info from AWS S3 folks will help. Thanks!
Around 2013 it was doubling every year. Aws revenue is 10x since then, so possibly s3 object grew by similar number. So, my guess is 20+ trillion. It is unlikely people will give out the exact numbers, but for your intent, it prolly doesn’t matter.
How is the number matters
Am not looking for exact numbers - just in the order of trillions or petabytes.
It's unlikely Amazon has that number or tracks it. After a trillion, it really doesn't matter. If someone is not impressed by a 12 zeros, he won't be impressed by 15 either.
It’s not to impress or sway a decision one way or other - we( every AWS customer) use S3 left and right but do not know the boundaries of it or how big it is or how dependent the world is on S3. It’s a curiosity project - that’s it. One other thing that surprises me is AWS keeps the architecture of S3 so secretive. No where they discuss it. They keep it simple and say it’s an object store.
But isn’t HDFS a block store? Vs S3 an object store?
I don’t think this is supposed to be public info 😕
Not even a ball park number like tens of trillions, exabytes of data...etc?
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