TWENTY YEARS OF AMAZON S3 AND BUILDING WHAT'S NEXT

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Amazon S3 launched in 2006, unexpectedly shaping the internet infrastructure by offering developers highly scalable, reliable, and inexpensive web-scale storage. Over two decades, S3 has grown from petabytes to hundreds of exabytes and trillions of objects. Looking forward, S3 is evolving beyond simple storage to become a universal foundation for AI and data workloads, introducing capabilities like S3 Tables, Vectors, and Metadata to directly support complex applications on stored data.