so like, what is the point of s3 anyway?
is it just to be able to get more iops at the cost of latency?

cause i’m noticing that just about every service i’ve set up in a long time supports it and i suppose i’m just kinda struggling to figure out why you’d want it over local disk storage
bit like sqlite vs a database server? only reason i can see for wanting a database server is to put it on a different machine, but like, we’ve already got a half dozen different protocols for network storage, what does s3 do that those don’t?

@tidest s3 style storage can scale really well, but it’s a lot more infra. it’s not really worth it if you’re not planning on scaling huge

@eri
@tidest honestly i just use s3 in a lot of services because that means it cannot run out of space, local disk storage on raccloud servers tends to be much more expensive