Cloud infrastructure services have primarily relied on local disk storage as their source of truth storage layer. Increasingly, S3 is being used as the core persistence layer for infrastructure services.

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Using S3 as the primary storage backend for infrastructure services offers advantages like separation of storage and compute, offloading distributed system and storage concerns, cost efficiency, simplified deployment, and improved developer experience.

S3 as the universal infrastructure backend

The S3 As a Persistence Layer Architecture