As it Turns 15, the AWS Cloud Now Stores 100 Trillion Objects – Data Center Frontier

Amazon Web Services data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

One of our core theses at Data Center Frontier is that the world is being transformed by data, and that the infrastructure that manages all this data becomes more mission-critical to our society by the day.

This theme is constantly reinforced by the growth we see all around us, including larger data centers, bigger campuses and eye-popping data on the volume of leasing and construction.

Sometimes we see data points affirm the extraordinary nature of this shift to digital business platforms. But every now and again someone in the industry shares a data point that just blows your mind. That was the case yesterday, as a blog post from Amazons Jeff Barr noted the 15th anniversary of the launch of Amazon Web Services, which kicked off the era of cloud computing. Jeffs post included a mind-blowing data point.

Today I am happy to announce that S3 now stores over 100 trillion (1014, or 100,000,000,000,000) objects, and regularly peaks at tens of millions of requests per second, Barr wrote. Thats almost 13,000 objects for each person in the world, or 50 objects for every one of the roughly two trillion galaxies in the Universe.

How does a service got from zero to 100 trillion in 15 years? One day at a time. No one is using less data today than they were yesterday. Tomorrow, we will all use more data, as technology continues to create new capabilities, and shifts others from physical to virtual.

At Data Center Frontier we think about data generation in terms of streams theres many different streams streams of of data coming into the data center industry from a lot of different technologies AI, the Internet of Things, edge computing, 5G wireless, satellites, virtual reality, drones, robots, connected cars and much more. Each of these technologies generates streams of data, which merge into rivers and oceans and manifest in a tsunami for the worlds data center industry to store and manage.

AWS is a primary example of this, as companies pursuing all of these next-generation technologies now store and manage their data on AWS, alongside the huge volume of business from traditional IT shops that are discovering the value of cloud services.

All of this requires real-world infrastructure to deliver. Here are some stories that examine what this looks like in the real world:

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As it Turns 15, the AWS Cloud Now Stores 100 Trillion Objects - Data Center Frontier