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[–] loric@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I've honestly never understood the need for s3 buckets. WebDAV satisfies my needs. I'm sure there are some use cases that require S3, but for the life of me I can't think of one off the top of my head right now.

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

S3 is not made for you. It's made for entities that need to store millions of objects, with thousands of different rules, reading/writing from hundreds of machines without coordination, and with consistent, low latency. Now that some software use that as a storage layer, having an implementation for you is useful

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, it's mostly used for overengineering?

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's made for entities managing data for thousands/millions of people. “overengineering" implies a specific scope, it's not the one you think about

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