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AWS Talks About Scalability

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John Foley
Mar 31, 2021
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Database scalability has been one of my favorite topics ever since Microsoft’s Scalability Day in 1997, when Bill Gates demoed SQL Server 6.5 on Windows NT processing 1 billion transactions per day and 1 terabyte of data.
 
Here's what scalability looks like today, as shared by AWS during its Database Modernization Week. 

  • Data volume is growing 10x every 5 years

  • AWS’s time series database, Amazon Timestream, can store trillions of events per day

  • AWS migrated 7,500 Oracle databases, and 75 petabytes of data, used by Amazon.com to its own databases. The two-year project was completed in 2019. 

As we know, terabytes (TB) grow into petabytes (PB), exabytes (EB), and zettabytes (ZB). IDC forecasts worldwide data will swell to 175 ZB by 2025.
 
A surprising number of enterprises are dealing with exabytes, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in 2016. At the time, AWS introduced Snowmobile, a 45-foot shipping container on wheels that it uses to move 100 PB at a time from customer data centers to AWS. That proces…

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