Thanks for bringing the discussion over to HN, Jeff. While I don't have a use for the new object size limits (the data we store at S3 is on average of only a f

Thanks for bringing the discussion over to HN, Jeff. While I don't have a use for the new object size limits (the data we store at S3 is on average of only a few Kb per object - even though we store millions of them), I can't wait to see what people (mainly the scientific community) do with this. Bumping the object limit to 5TB means huge datasets can now be stored, processed straight from and added back to S3 - removing size limits is the final piece of the puzzle to "trivialize" big data processing. PS: It's been fun, and exciting, and unexpected to follow Amazon AWS' growth in the past few years. I remember back when AWS was first announced thinking of how odd it was for a company like Amazon to open its infrastructure like you guys were doing. A little while later, we were fortunate enough to be among the very first companies to use EC2 (Goplan was the first 3rd party product to run on EC2 back in the day - it got us on Wired Magazine). These days, AWS has become an integral part of most startups I see and products I work with. That is a huge deal.