Amazon reports that his onlineopslagplatform S3 in the last years a significant growth. The number of files stored on S3, by Amazon ‘objects’ as they are called, amounted in the fourth quarter 762 billion.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, the number of ‘objects’ on the cloud-based systems from Amazon S3 yet 262 billion, making the growth figure for 2011 comes out at 192 percent, reports Amazon Web Services. In addition, the cloud provider on his blog that the on-peak times to 500,000 requests per second to handle the matter on his onlineopslagplatform.
According to Randy Bias, working at Cloudscaling, show the Amazon Web Services released figures that the opslagplatform not only significantly grows, but that growth is also accelerating. Furthermore, the figure for Bias for Readwriteweb that Amazon with an assumption of only 1KB per object 7222 servers, each with 100TB storage needs. In a replicatiefactor of 3 would Amazon S3 about 260PB in data stored. Moreover, it would be Amazon with these figures S3 a revenue of an estimated 26 million dollars per month.
Amazon reports that the enormous growth of stored data is partly explained by new possibilities to transfer files to the platform to upload. This can include using the multipart object mechanism and AWS Direct Connect, a service that allows companies to use a dedicated network connection data on S3.
