[UltraSane]

AWS has said that the largest S3 buckets are spread over 1 million hard drives. That is quite impressive.

[ninetyninenine]

Red dead redemption 2 is likely on over 74 million hard drives.

[simonw]

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!

[UltraSane]

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.

[SteveNuts]

There's likely over a trillion active SQLite databases in use right now.