Whitepaper (Amazon) Whitepaper (Backup) TL;DR If you walk away with anything, it should be this: Amazon S3 can handle whatever you throw at it, as long as you follow the rules. It can be as fast as you need (3,500 PUT/COPY/POST/DELETE and 5,500 GET/HEAD requests/second/prefix), scales horizontally seamlessly across a wide pool of IP addresses… Continue reading RIFM: Best Practices Design Patterns: Optimizing Amazon S3 Performance