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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. Creating The Bucket. Large preview ).

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. Regional isolation.

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