Amazon Simple Storage Service holds 905 billion objects April 6, 2012 - 22:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Amazon Web Service's (S3) Simple Storage Service holds 905 billion objects, and it's growing by a billion per day, the company says. In the fourth quarter of 2006, S3 held 2.9 billion objects. By 2008 it was up to 340 billion, and by 2010 it had 262 billion. Last year, it grew to 762 billion objects, and today's announcement pegs it at 905 billion. Even that number is set to increase rapidly into the future, if objects continue to be stored at the 1 billion per day rate. AWS says it handled 650,000 requests per second for the objects, a figure that increases "substantially" during peak times, Computer World reports. Partner news  Top stories Apple uses two conventional offshore tax practices typical of multinational companies' tax-avoidance strategies, the report said. Apple joined the Fair Labor Association in 2012 after being slammed with criticism over the working conditions at Foxconn. It’s not the first time Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been interested in the New York-based hipster blogging service. The number of new smartphones delivered with Android jumped to 162.1 million in the first three months in 2013.   Partner news |  Latest news Iraq resumes investigation into Russian arms deal  Iraqi Prime Minister signed an arms package purchase agreement with Russia worth $4.2 billion during a visit to Moscow in October 2012.Saudi Arabia detains 10 more in Iran-linked spying case State television news channel al-Ekhbariya said the new group includes eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk.Armenian President condoles on Oklahoma tornado tragedy Serzh Sargsyan addressed a letter of condolence to Barack Obama on the destruction caused by Oklahoma City tornado.Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes’ “Great Expectations” release date set Great Expectations, based on the Dickens book, premiered at Toronto last year and was released in the UK in November. |
