Why Amazon S3 Is a Smart Default for Data Storage, and Where Glacier Fits In
How S3 handles durability, scaling and access control, and when S3 Glacier and other archive tiers are the right home for data you rarely read.
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CDNs Explained: How They Speed Up Your Website Globally
A visitor in São Paulo and a visitor in Dhaka shouldn't have wildly different load times. Here's how a CDN makes that true, and what it's actually doing under the hood.
Object Storage Explained: Why We Use Amazon S3 for Client Projects
Storing files directly on a web server works, right up until it doesn't. Here's why object storage like S3 is the better default for anything beyond a toy project.