Tag: distributed-storage

Amazon S3 turned highly scalable object storage into an on-demand web service, separating durable data from owned hardware and making capacity, durability and consistency part of a cloud API contract.

Google's 2003 File System paper described a distributed storage system designed around commodity-machine failures, enormous files, streaming reads, and append-heavy workloads, making failure handling and scale first-class properties of the file system rather than exceptional conditions.