20 Years, Infinite Objects: The Amazon S3 Story

Amazon S3 was launched on March 14, 2006, as simple web-scale storage and has since become the backbone of cloud infrastructure over 20 years. Key milestones include European expansion (2007), CloudFront CDN integration (2009), 11-nines durability with Reduced Redundancy Storage (2010), multipart upload for large files, and static website hosting (2011). Along the way, a notable 2008 outage reminded the industry that even cloud giants have bad days.