Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects

kept by eddie jun 17

Amazon S3 introduces annotations allowing up to 1 GB of mutable, queryable context per object, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows.

Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages
AWS launches CloudFront flat-rate pricing with no overages across Free, Pro, Business, and Premium tiers to eliminate cost surprises from traffic spikes or DDoS attacks.
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AI inference just plays by different rules
AI inference workloads demand unprecedented concurrency and throughput, exposing cloud storage limits that require a decoupled, software-defined layer to avoid catastrophic failures.
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Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
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ZeroFS — A log-structured filesystem for S3
ZeroFS provides a log‑structured filesystem over S3‑compatible storage, exposing POSIX via NFS/9P and block devices via NBD with built‑in encryption and caching.
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Amazon’s Durability – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Amazon's decade-long investments in infrastructure, custom silicon, and physical-world operations position it to dominate the inference era of AI.
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