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		dexwiz on March 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: S3 is files, but not a filesystem Object Storage

jeffbr13 on March 10, 2024 [–]

I tend to go by Binary Large OBject (BLOB) storage to discern between this kind of object storage and “object” as in OOP. BLOB is also what databases call files stored in columns.

OJFord on March 10, 2024 | [–]

When would that be confusing? As in what would an AWS service offering OOP object storage be/mean?

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