David Looney wrote:
I can see using S3 for backing relatively small important files, but it seems to me not to be well suited to use as an off-site complete system backup.
S3 has good bandwidth but sucky latency. My guess is that those systems all try to write synchronously. They probably get clobbered by the round trip delays.
You need something that will put a lot of transactions on the wire without waiting for the previous ones to complete.
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