I agree in that they are probably comparing the wrong aspects of S3. You're not going to be able to compete on the speed anytime soon probably, and maybe even

I agree in that they are probably comparing the wrong aspects of S3. You're not going to be able to compete on the speed anytime soon probably, and maybe even the capacity if it really takes off. But, anyone here that works on an Amazon-based internet company knows that S3 is the most unreliable (in terms of availability, not storage) universally used product they have, next to EC2. A good chunk of incidents can be attributed to S3 downtime in some AZ. With a decentralized storage network, the probability of actual downtime in terms of availability go wayyyyy down. If Amazon us-east-1 has a bad deploy or a network event, you lose access to those buckets, full-stop. With something like this, you'd need a much larger network event, and if the app is fully decentralized itself, blast radius can be contained to individual customer regions instead of where you host your servers. Probably more useful to compare to GCS Storage honestly, since they have multi-region buckets.