S3 does simple, reliable object storage well. If anything its draconian pricing model for charging exuberant pricing for bandwidth is showing its age and why we

S3 does simple, reliable object storage well. If anything its draconian pricing model for charging exuberant pricing for bandwidth is showing its age and why we've moved to Cloudflare R2 for their zero egress fees. Being able to reuse the s3 command-line and existing S3 libraries has made the migration painless, so I'm thankful they've created a defacto standard that other S3 compatible object storage providers can implement.