The Infinite Drive: S3 and Cloud Object Storage

For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or at least we think it is, because it is super freakin' huge. We talk about how it's built, how it works, and how people use it. Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 How AWS S3 Achieves 1 Petabyte Per Second on Hard Disk Drives Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3 Picture Me Coding 2025 Spotify Playlist Send us Fan Mail