THE MATHEMATICS OF MULTI-TENANCY

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An S3 customer's bucket migration resulted in a swarm of 503 errors coming from S3 due to the way S3 prevents users from explicitly defining partitions. S3 doesn't let users control partitioning because it would result in unpredictable usage patterns. This article looks deeper into the reasons why multi-tenancy works for S3 and presents a statistical model for better understanding multi-tenancy.