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At what point does S3 break? Very happy user of S3 and much of the rest of AWS here, but I can't help but ask (mostly rhetorically). S3 is presumably the larg
by cemerick 15y ago
At what point does S3 break?
Very happy user of S3 and much of the rest of AWS here, but I can't help but ask (mostly rhetorically).
S3 is presumably the largest system of its kind ever; it's not clear to me what its failure modes, thresholds, or weak links might be as it continues to grow. Anything from a breakdown in the dynamo architecture to hard infrastructure limits to failures in operations and management strike me as plausible. What will we see first: data loss, increases in latency, repeated catastrophic outages, or "other"?
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- cemerick 15y agoGetting some feedback/insight on this topic seemed interesting enough to me that I wrote a slightly-expanded post separately: http://cemerick.com/2011/07/20/at-what-point-does-s3-break/ http://cemerick.com/2011/07/20/at-what-point-does-s3-break/