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We solved the problem of deleting old files early in our development process, as we wanted to avoid situations such as this one.

While developing GitFront, we were using S3 to store individual files from git repositories as single objects. Each of our users was able to have multiple repositories with thousands of files, and they needed to be able to delete them.

To solve the issue, we implemented a system for storing multiple files inside a single object and a proxy which allows accessing individual files transparently. Deleting a whole repository is now just a single request to S3.