Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service 11 years ago
I've recently started using gridFS for a proof-of-concept project (mainly because I wanted to leaarn more about it), and was wondering about your choice of S3 over something like this (or an equivalent).
In my case, were this project to go into production, I'd probably recommend using S3. Given you have 8TB of assets, I was wondering if, at that scale, S3 still represents a lower TCO, or if you had other reasons for using it? Obviously you are using Dynamo for your metadata and SNS/SQS, and hence have a pretty AWS-oriented stack to begin with.
Anyway, just asking out of interest.