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by banana-19 1404 days ago
I'm guessing he's NOT talking about S3's user data.

He's talking about runtime logs of the S3 service, or possibly logs from Amazon's services that are written to S3.

Amazon has ~100K services running on millions of EC2 instances. (Generalizing) each service writes logs to the local machine, and then later compresses and transmits them to a set of systems that are backed by S3 for monitoring / further bulk processing etc.

Some back of the envelope math on this:

For 1 exabyte to be the number, that equates to < 1TB average logs kept per host. Depending on what the service is doing log retention is 3mo / 1y / 10y. Using those numbers we're talking per service average 12-460 MB/hour.

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Yep, someone from aws clarified this on r/programming:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/wtd61q/aws_swi...