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by ninetyninenine 390 days ago
I find red dead redemption 2 more impressive. I don’t know why. It sounds stupid but S3 on the surface has the simplest api and it’s just not impressive to me when compared to something like that.

I’m curious which one is actually more impressive in general.
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SteveNuts 390 days ago
Simple to use from an external interface yes, the backend is wildly impressive.

Some previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900147

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UltraSane 389 days ago
AWS has said that the largest S3 buckets are spread over 1 million hard drives. That is quite impressive.
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ninetyninenine 389 days ago
Red dead redemption 2 is likely on over 74 million hard drives.
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simonw 389 days ago
I think you misunderstood. They're not saying S3 uses a million hard drives, they're saying that there exist some large single buckets that use a million hard drives just for that one bucket/customer!
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UltraSane 387 days ago
actually data from more than one customer would be stored on those million drives. But data from one customer is spread over 1 million drives to get the needed IOPs from spinning hard drives.
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SteveNuts 389 days ago
There's likely over a trillion active SQLite databases in use right now.
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koito17 389 days ago
> S3 on the surface has the simplest api and it’s just not impressive [...]

Reminded of the following comment from not too long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363055

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sriram_malhar 389 days ago
That's the strangest comparison I have seen. What axis are you really comparing here? Better graphics? Sound?
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ninetyninenine 389 days ago
Complexity and sheer intelligence and capability required to build either.
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sriram_malhar 389 days ago
And what is the basis for your claim? You are not impressed by AWS's complexity and intelligence and capability to build and manage 1-2 zettabytes of storage near flawlessly?
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ninetyninenine 389 days ago
Im more impressed by red dead redemption 2 or baldurs gate 3.

There is no “basis” other my gut feeling. Unless you can get quantified metrics to compare that’s all we got. For example if you had lines of code for both, or average IQ. Both would lead towards the “basis” which neither you or I have.

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