Comment by richieartoul

Nice article. I agree that it is a bit of a shame that everything is forced to be so S3-centric (and I say that as someone whose work helped motivate a lot of people to do that), but right now its an unfortunate reality of running software in the cloud because cloud networking and SSDs are so expensive that you really are required to use S3 if you want a system that can handle "big data" scale workloads cost effectively