What is "S3-compatible object storage"?
@vaporeon_ “object storage” (which i think is best summarized as an abstraction of the concept of storage of unstructured data away from underlying mechanisms of file storage, and organizational concepts like “hierarchical organization”—objects are just globally identifiable bits of data with metadata) that uses the API of amazon web services’s object storage service, S3 (“simple storage service”, iirc)
@aescling What's the point, compared to just storing files in a directory that's exposed on your HTTP server?
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@vaporeon_ in S3’s case, extremely fine grained access control; and supposed guarantees about data integrity, availability, and latency that would require a lot of work to pull off on your own
