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Simple api

Absurdly cheap storage

Extremely HA

Absurdly durable

Effectively unlimited bandwidth

Effectively unbounded storage without reservation or other management

Everything supports its api

It’s not a file system. It’s a blob store. It’s useful for spraying vast amounts of data into it and getting vast amounts of data out of it at any scale. It’s not low latency, it’s not a block store, but it is really cheap and the scaling of bandwidth and storage and concurrency make it possible to build stuff like snowflake that couldn’t be built on Ceph in any reasonable way.