Reflections on S3's architectural flawsOn 28th February 2017, Amazon Web Service’s S3 storage service experienced a period of unavailability. While we are awaiting a postmortem and explanation of root-cause, I thought I would share my thoughts on the storage guarantees provided by S3, the implications of S3’s closed model for metadata, and a prediction of the re-emergence of cloud-scale hierarchical filesystems as a replacement for obj
