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by codegeek 1795 days ago
Yea I agree mostly. They could have explained a bit differently. For example, it says that S3 Should have been called Amazon Unlimited FTP Server. That is definitely over simplifying it. S3 stores objects and a regular FTP server is just a server with files. I would explain S3 as "Kinda like an SFTP server but you get to add encryption, versioning, tagging, metadata to files when they get uploaded"