Amazon S3

Evidence (17)

• 7InfoQ·9/30/2026product_launch
  Cursor Scales Git Storage with S3-Based Write-Ahead Log

  Cursor introduced Continuity, a Git storage architecture that uses an S3-backed write-ahead log as the source of truth. The company says the design turns local NVMe repositories into warm caches, separates replica coordination from consistency, and achieved linear read scaling in tests with up to 100 replicas and more than 300 pushes per second using S3 Express One Zone.

• 3Simon Willison·9/27/2026research
  S3 Price Has Stayed Flat for a Decade

  Simon Willison notes that Amazon S3 has not seen a price drop in ten years, with the storage price remaining at $0.023 per GB-month since 2016. He contrasts this with earlier years, when S3 pricing fell repeatedly over time.

• 4Hacker News·9/15/2026open_source
  Alternatives to MinIO for Local Single-Node S3

  The article reviews simpler replacements for MinIO in local, single-node S3-compatible setups used for demos and validation pipelines. It compares options against requirements such as Docker support, open licensing, ease of use, and active maintenance, with a focus on running DuckDB and Iceberg against local object storage.

• 7InfoQ·9/4/2026open_source
  Vortex Streams S3 Data to GPUs with One-Copy Loading

  Onur Satici describes Vortex, an open-source columnar file format under the Linux Foundation, as a way to remove CPU and NVMe bottlenecks in ML training data loading. Using lightweight encodings, segment pruning, and zero-copy pipelines, it can stream S3 data directly to GPUs at up to 60 Gbps without upfront reprocessing.

• 7The New Stack·9/3/2026research
  Cut GPU inference cold start from 8 minutes to under a minute

  The article breaks down GPU inference startup into six phases and shows that cold-start time can be reduced substantially through configuration and platform changes. It reports that warm-node restarts can drop from 1.5-8 minutes to under 30 seconds, while fresh-node startups can fall from 8-15 minutes to about 5 minutes when using Amazon EKS Auto Mode and related optimizations.

• 8The New Stack·8/28/2026security
  JetBrains failed to patch exposed TeamCity server behind Cadence breach

  JetBrains says attackers exploited an unpatched TeamCity vulnerability on a Cadence cloud development server, exposing backups, credentials, logs, and some source-related data. The company advises users to rotate potentially compromised secrets and treat executions and outputs from the affected period as untrusted.

• 7InfoQ·8/28/2026security
  Four Post-Quantum Cryptography Patterns for Spring Boot

  The article outlines four ways to introduce post-quantum cryptography into a Spring Boot environment: service-to-service payload encryption, database field protection, long-term document signing, and replacing RS256 for service tokens. It also notes that harvest-now-decrypt-later threats are already relevant, and that production deployment should rely on KMS or Vault.

• 7InfoQ·8/21/2026security
  Wiz Finds Security Gaps in S3-Compatible Storage

  Security researchers at Wiz evaluated S3-compatible object storage services across six neocloud providers and found that many do not match Amazon S3’s security protections. The report highlights that S3 compatibility does not necessarily mean equivalent default security controls, access protections, or hardening.

• 8Hacker News·8/12/2026open_source
  Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to a 16-Year-Old SQLite WAL Bug

  Tailscale says months of repeated database corruption incidents in its control plane were ultimately traced to a long-standing SQLite WAL-reset bug. The company reports it fixed the issue and is publishing the incident details after 19 corruption events over six months that caused shard-level downtime and some lost configuration changes.

• 6InfoQ·8/10/2026framework_update
  Canva Uses S3 to Scale Session Revocation

  Canva redesigned its session revocation system to handle around 100 million active sessions while reducing database lookups. The new approach stores durable revocation records in Amazon S3 and distributes compact in-memory indexes to application gateways, cutting revocation cache memory usage by 87.5% and simplifying deployment.

• 5InfoQ·7/30/2026framework_update
  AWS Lambda Raises Managed Code Storage Quota

  AWS Lambda now lets customers reference deployment packages directly from their own S3 buckets, which removes the per-Region managed code storage quota and increases the default managed limit from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package size limits remain unchanged, and users still need to run UpdateFunctionCode after replacing an object.

• 6The New Stack·7/23/2026research
  Prompt Caching and Batched Pipelines to Cut RAG Costs

  The article argues that naive retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures often fail in production because synchronous ingestion, timeout limits, and rate limits do not scale to enterprise workloads. It recommends asynchronous uploads, micro-batching, and controlled embedding workers, and discusses prompt caching as one way to reduce costs without hurting accuracy.

• 6The New Stack·7/15/2026product_launch
  What breaks when AI notetaker memory scales

  The article examines how Plaud’s AI notetaker hit a scaling problem not in transcription quality, but in serving stored transcripts back to users quickly. Its original split between MySQL for metadata and S3 for large audio and transcript files worked at launch, but created latency and consistency issues when the product needed to behave like a real-time memory system.

• 6The New Stack·7/9/2026research
  Autonomous ingestion errors poison a vector database

  A fintech team describes how an autonomous PDF ingestion pipeline inserted incorrect metadata into a vector database, causing a chatbot to cite outdated and wrong financial data. The post-mortem says the root cause was treating probabilistic LLM extraction as deterministic, and that a second LLM-based validation step failed due to mutual confirmation bias.

• 6InfoQ·7/8/2026framework_update
  Airbnb Details Sitar-agent for Dynamic Kubernetes Configuration

  Airbnb engineers described Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar used to deliver dynamic configuration to tens of thousands of pods with updates arriving several times per minute. The system was redesigned around Java, Amazon S3 snapshot bootstrapping, and a migration from Sparkey to SQLite to improve reliability, startup speed, and configuration availability at scale.

• 6InfoQ·7/5/2026product_launch
  AWS Adds Amazon S3 Annotations

  AWS has introduced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature for attaching searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, and AI-generated insights to S3 objects. The annotations can be updated independently of the underlying object and queried across datasets, which may reduce reliance on separate metadata systems.

• 7Hacker News·7/2/2026product_launch
  ZeroFS introduces a log-structured filesystem for S3

  ZeroFS is an open-source filesystem that serves S3-compatible storage as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, and as raw block devices over NBD. It writes data as immutable, compressed, encrypted segments and includes local caching, checkpoints, replication, and durability semantics for different mount types.