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		booi 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of ... it's amazing that Glacier is such a huge system with so many people working on it and it's still a public mystery how it works. I've not seen a single confirmation of how it works..

ignoramous 3 months ago [–]

Glacier could be doing similar to what Azure does: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

Also see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011396

pyuser583 3 months ago | [–]

I doubt it’s using WORM drives.

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