S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage with Simple Notification Service: What, Why, and When

AWS recently added support for receiving Simple Notification Service notifications when S3 loses a Reduced Redundancy Storage S3 object. This raises a number of questions: What the heck does that even mean? Why would I want to do that? Under what conditions does it make financial sense to do that? Let’s take a look at these questions, and we’ll also do a bit of brainstorming (please participate!) to design a service that puts it all together. ...

July 22, 2010 · 9 min · shlomo