I'm surprised that S3/AWS hasn't blogged or done a white paper about their approach yet. It's been something like 7 years now since they moved away from standard load balancing.
If you think about an object storage platform, much like with YouTube, traditional load balancing is a really bad fit. No two requests are even remotely the same in terms of resource requirements, duration etc.
If you think about an object storage platform, much like with YouTube, traditional load balancing is a really bad fit. No two requests are even remotely the same in terms of resource requirements, duration etc.