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> ... but has 100X the performance of S3 for file move/rename operations

Isn't rename in S3 effectively a copy-delete operation?

That’s my understanding too. Also rename / copy turned out not to be very useful at the end of the day. Nearly all my implementations just boil down to randomized characters as ids

Yup. Use a system like Redis/DynamoDB or even a traditional database to store the metadata and use random UUID for actual file storage.

And tag the files for expiration/clean up. S3 is not a file system and people should stop treating it like one - only to get bitten by these assumptions around it being a FS.

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