Diskless Kafka cuts latency to sub-10ms today
See how Diskless Kafka hits sub-10ms latency while cutting your cloud storage bill by 94% without local disks.
Marcus Chen
15 min readAmazon
Marcus Chen
15 min read
AWS Storage Gateway: Automate AL2023 Before June 2026
Stop manual upgrades. Our Terraform modules handle hundreds of gateways, limiting downtime to just 1–2 hours per instance before the 2026 deadline.
Marcus Chen
14 min read
S3 storage truth: Why Reddit skips directories
Reddit avoids directories because S3 handles 1M+ data lakes. Learn why flat namespaces beat rigid file systems for massive scale.
Alex Kumar
13 min read
Distributed rclone cuts migration costs to $2k
Move 2.7 PB for just $2,000 using distributed rclone. We replaced brittle scripts with ECS and SQS to stop transfer stalls.
Marcus Chen
14 min read
S3 Files beat EFS pricing: Why I'm switching now
Stop paying $0.30 per GB for EFS. S3 Files brings POSIX semantics to buckets, ending the need for fragile data sync pipelines.
Alex Kumar
16 min read
S3 Files Architecture: Bridging Object and File
Launched April 7, 2026, S3 Files merges object storage with NFS. Learn how to mount buckets on EKS for agentic AI without data duplication.
Alex Kumar
14 min read
S3 Express Inventory: Fixing Directory Bucket Blind Spots
S3 Express now supports inventory reports at $0.16 per GB. Stop using slow List API calls and get daily CSV metadata for your directory buckets.
Marcus Chen
13 min read
S3 Files for Lambda: Mount Buckets as NFS
AWS S3 Files now supports NFS v4.2, letting Lambda mount buckets directly. This ends the 20-year split between file flexibility and object durability.
Alex Kumar
14 min read
Amazon S3 storage: 500 trillion objects deep
S3 now handles 200 million requests per second. I break down the engineering behind 500 trillion objects and why metadata optimization is critical.
Marcus Chen
13 min read
Express metrics reveal S3 single-digit ms delays
Stop guessing at S3 performance. My analysis of the new minute-level data shows exactly where single-digit ms variance impacts your bill.
Marcus Chen
13 min read
Amazon S3 durability: 18 years of eleven nines
After 18 years, S3 holds 500 trillion objects with eleven nines durability. See how simple PUT/GET primitives scaled globally without breaking apps.
Marcus Chen
16 min read
Amazon S3 consistency: What 2006 tape libraries taught us
See how Amazon S3 replaced tape libraries in 2011, eliminating manual seeks and proving cloud durability for enterprise Oracle backups.
Marcus Chen
13 min read
Data mesh patterns: Zero code changes needed
Deploy a federated data mesh using 7 integrated services. Secure cross-account access without modifying a single line of legacy app code.
Alex Kumar
14 min read
OpenSearch Ingestion: Stop Silent Data Loss Now
Stop silent data loss in your pipeline. Learn to spot threshold breaches before they trigger Deadletter queues and inflate your 2026 cloud bill.
Alex Kumar
17 min read
Storage costs drop 70% with FSx Lustre
I analyzed SAS Grid migration data: FSx for Lustre IntelligentTiering delivers 96% savings on cold data while keeping petabyte-scale performance.
Alex Kumar
14 min read