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Google has Big Table right? But do they have a distributed storage mechanism on par with S3? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System

If amazon can build it, Google can build it.

But as Steve Yegge reminded us in his famous Platform rant, Amazon knows how to make it a service whereas Google will tend to be stuck thinking about it as a product.

Correction: thinking about it as a way to attract product.

Check out Google Cloud Storage. https://developers.google.com/storage/

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