Storage Letter — Page 3

Splitting S3 downloads into parallel byte ranges cuts per-chunk retry time from minutes to seconds.

Use IAM for your own users, bucket policies when external callers need access.

Geography and object size determine whether S3TA's cost justifies its gains.

Enabling S3 versioning is easy; disabling it costs days and dollars in hidden storage.

EBS hits sub-millisecond, S3 Standard tops 100ms—pick wrong and your GPUs wait for storage.

Choose the right S3 storage class to cut costs without sacrificing access speed or data durability.

Spread your S3 keys across more prefixes to multiply your throughput ceiling.

The S3 feature that shifts data transfer costs from publishers to those downloading their datasets.

Bucket names and regions are permanent decisions that require careful planning before deployment.