905 Billion Objects Stored at Amazon S3

In a blog post, Amazon outlines the growth of its S3.

At the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects and and 650,000 requests/second.

"The S3 object count continued to grow at a rapid clip even after we added object expiration and multi-object deletion at the end of the year. Every day, well over a billion objects are added via the S3 APIs, AWS Import/Export, the AWS Storage Gateway, all sorts of backup tools, and through Direct Connect pipes," was written in the blog.

     Amazon S3 Growth: Total Number of Objects Stored