Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2011) Cloud Computing

1. What’s the state of the cloud? It’s getting bigger all the time, and sophisticated enterprise applications represent one of the fastest-growing sectors. That’s the bottom line from Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon Web Services, who gave his annual “state of the cloud” presentation Wednesday morning at the GigaOm Structure 2011 conference. First, the numbers: Amazon’s S3 storage service now houses 339 billion objects, more than doubling the volume from the same time last year, when S3 stored 150 billion objects. Vogels sees more breakneck growth ahead. “I think we’re just getting to the hockey stick,” he said. (Read Full Article)

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