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Amazon Web Services celebrated its 10th anniversary in March of this year. As it closes in on becoming a $10 billion run rate per year enterprise IT juggernaut, the cloud computing platform has changed the IT landscape forever. Not only does Amazon Web Services (AWS) remain the largest infrastructure as a service/platform as a service (IaaS/PaaS) cloud platform on the market, its growth rate has been more than double that of some of the biggest IT companies in history. In response to this success, major system vendors such as Cisco, Dell/EMC, HP and IBM are rapidly developing private cloud infrastructures as on-premises alternatives to AWS. The goal is to make infrastructure easier to utilize and manage for customers demanding cloud-like ease of use with public cloud-like prices. Likewise, storage vendors must do their part to improve ease of use and lower costs. That's because much of the success of AWS has been due to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) leading the way. S3 consists of a set of object storage API calls available...