Irreverence

70 exabytes in Amazon's S3 storage cloud?

posted on 20 March 2008 14:21

It's only two years old

UPDATE 24 Mar 08: Anil updated and corrected his numbers down several orders of magnitude to 20PB, which means S3is not doing so terrifyingly well as it appeareed.

(20 March 08) In Anil Gupta's blog there is a guesstimate that Amazon's S3 cloud service already stores between 14 and 70 exabytes of data.

An exabyte, as a reminder, is 1,000 petabytes.
A petabyte, as a remind... is 1,000 terabytes.
A terabyte, as a .... is 1,000 gigabytes.
A gigabyte ..... 1,000 megabytes.

So 70EB is 70 billion gigabytes. If true, that's an astonishing total. S3 is just a mewling and, sometimes, puking infant. What's it going to be storing a few more years time?