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You're right, I didn't pay attention there. Still seems that there a many solutions better suited than S3. Probably a classic case of "We need an MVP fast, let's optimize later".




Agreed, but this isn't always bad. Optimizing early with unclear requirements can kill time, which at an early stage is just delaying product launch.

Migrate/optimize later when you're actually reaching scale is a perfectly reasonable approach.

In fact, if you have a decent abstraction or standard in place (e.g. S3 API or repository pattern) you can swap it out in place.




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