AWS S3 load throughput

Here is the S3 performance tips and tricks public blog entry with some good information:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/amazon-s3-performance-tips-tricks-seattle-hiring-event.html

The key learning is that S3 does continue to scale very well and there are customers running >100k TPS. However, S3 does not automatically create a partition scheme quickly nor can they use an API to manage this or use CloudWatch to monitor. 

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