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allset_ on March 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: S3 is files, but not a filesystem

FWIW, both AWS S3 and GCP GCS also allow you to store data in multi-region.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/MultiR...

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations#consideratio...

andrewguenther on March 10, 2024 [–]

Yes, but S3 has single region redundancy that is better than GCP. Your data in two AZs in one region is in two physically separate buildings. So multi-region is less important to durability.

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