Data Engineering Podcast
Amazon S3: The Backbone of Modern Data Systems
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Overview
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec details how Amazon S3 evolved into the backbone of scalable, unified, and cost-effective modern data architecture, driven by customer innovation.
Takeaways
  • Customers, including Netflix and FINRA, leveraged S3's durability, security, and elasticity to create new architectures, enabling massive data lakes, analytics, and regulatory workloads at unprecedented scales.
  • S3’s evolution reflects generational shifts: from object storage for backups, to powering Hadoop analytics, to supporting advanced features like strong consistency, intelligent tiering, and direct Iceberg table access.
  • S3 differentiates itself from file-oriented protocols by offering rapid innovation, global scale, event-driven architectures, and high throughput, enabling workloads that legacy shared storage cannot match.
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