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S3 is files, but not a filesystem

March 2024 "Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful My very own "object store" Amazon S3 is the original cloud technology: it came out in 2006. "Objects" were popular at the time and S3 was labelled an "object store", but everyone really knows that S3 is for files. S3 is a cloud filesystem, not an object-whatever. I think idea that S3 is really "Amazon Cloud Filesystem" is a bit of a load bearing fiction. It's sort of true: S3 can store files. It's also a very useful bel...

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