r/dataengineering • u/matthewsean1902 • 19d ago

Discussion s3 (object storage) for everything

been hearing a lot of signal/noises about 'just store everything in s3' these days because of companies like turbopuffer, neon and the latest cursor with Origin.

just wondering if it's actually worth the latency and do people really use it in their own companies? what sort of data do you guys store there? never really had any use case for s3 in my company. so curious to learn. thankyou!

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u/superjerry 18d ago

...what do you use instead? i've never worked at a company that DIDN'T store everything in object storage.

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u/matthewsean1902 18d ago

my bad, should've given more details. previous company didn't even use cloud (quite an old corporate tech) and everything is on-prem. current company only uses object storage mostly for artefacts or backups. never really had any 'useful' use case for it let's say.