[beachy]

> The only upside of storing blobs in the database is transactional semantics.

Plenty more advantages than that. E.g for SaaS you can deep copy an entire tenant including their digital assets. Much easier copying with just "insert into ... Select from" than having to copy S3 objects.

[mdaniel]

Or the opposite side of that, deletion. Pruning 38TB worth of S3 would be an unholy exercise unless the keys are 1TB each. I am aware of Lifecycle Policies, but they are a gargantuan PITA, IMHO