5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3

  • Ofir Nachmani
  • December 12, 2010

Today, Amazon S3 announced a new breakthrough in supporting customers with large files by increasing the maximum supported object size from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes.

Click here to read more on Werner Vogels Amazon.com CTO blog.

Also: Is AWS Targeting Netflix With 5TB Objects? Click here to get more information.

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A tech evangelist and entrepreneur, Ofir was an early adopter of cloud and spent a decade as a leading cloud blogger—well before it went mainstream. He held executive roles at top tech companies and has served as an independent analyst for AWS, HP, Oracle, Google, and others. With deep roots in both tech and marketing, Ofir founded IOD to bridge the gap between the two—helping vendors build credibility, scale content, and position themselves as industry influencers.

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