It’s early 2024 and S3 continues its ubiquity in computing. The often touted adjectives “serverless” or “cloud-native” usually mean—”we’re using S3 for something.” Amazon continues to push the boundaries of scale and further solidifies itself as the foundation for countless applications, platforms, and companies.
Recently, Amazon released their S3 Express One Zone Storage Class, advertised as the “fastest cloud object storage for performance-critical application.” In this post, I’ll highlight three key features of Express One and share some guesses regarding their implications on S3’s internal architecture.