Everyone knows what AWS S3 is, but few comprehend the massive scale it operates at, nor what it took to get there.In essence - it’s a scalable multi-tenant storage service with APIs to store and retrieve objects, offering extremely high availability1 and durability2 at a relatively low cost3.400+ trillion4 objects150 million requests a second (150,000,000/s)> 1 PB/s of peak traffictens of millions of disksHard drives.How S3 achieves this scale is an engineering marvel. To understand and apprecia...