Amazon Cloud Storage Traffic Soars

Amazon Web Services said this week that its "Simple Storage Service" housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr.

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