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		jeffbarr 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A year of funded FreeBSD development The original object size limit for S3 was 5 GB, as noted in my 2006 blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_s3/ I do not know if this has anything to do with the cliff that you saw.

cperciva 11 months ago | [–]

Pretty sure that's not related. For one thing I don't think EBS snapshots are stored in S3 as 5 GB segments.

bigiain 11 months ago | [–]

This is why I keep reading the comments here.

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