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Because people don’t.

I’ve spent a bunch of time analyzing IBM’s publicly released Cloud Object Storage traces. Median object size is about 16K, mean is a megabyte or two. A decent number of tenants have mean object sizes under 100K.

People use object storage for a bunch of reasons. In general you’re better off supporting what your users are doing than demanding that they rewrite their applications because you think they’re doing it all wrong.