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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

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We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

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