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Many people have far more than 10k objects though. Based on that math, if you stored 10 billion objects in S3 (certainly well within the realm of possibility), you'd lose an object on average every 10 years, which is a length of time one can think about.

Your main point (that making high reliability systems more conventionally reliable is building your high wall yet higher still) is definitely valid. But the lossage rate is actually a meaningful number given the extremely large number of objects stored in S3.

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I completely agree with you. Where they are intentionally misleading is in pretending that keeping one object for a zillion years is the same as keeping a zillion objects for one year.

Keeping one object for a zillion years sounds like an interesting project, now that you bring it up.

Our data integrity is such that it will survive universal cataclysm and the reduction of all data to a single point of infinite energy.[1]

[1]guarantee applies to a single bit of data[2] [2]bit value must be 1

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

Ref: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

Every time this story is posted somewhere, I just have to read it end to end.

Relevant: The thermodynamic arrow would reverse during a contracting phase of the Universe or inside black holes.

http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.248... (S. W. Hawking, 1985 <- Just so you know it isn't a crackpot writing this. It isn't a widely accepted view though)

That's funny, because I had to read it again too.

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

Funny enough, its funded by Bezos

Bezos isn't the only one.

The Long Now foundation (http://longnow.org) has some other interesting projects besides the clock.

If you like this kind of thing, I'd suggest reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem. It might be hard to get into it, it might be his most impenetrable book yet but it really pays off later.

Several of Neal Stephenson's books are like this ... I finished the Cryptonomicon earlier this year and have just started to read REAMDE. I often find myself reading the same sentence several times because they are so convoluted ...

Bezos can even make raw matter work extra hours for him.

All I could think of was Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

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