Large object uploads are a reliability design problem, not a bandwidth one. Parts, retries and the completion call decide whether a flaky link costs one chunk or the whole night.
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A nightly 40 GB export to S3 fails at 85 percent and starts over. How does multipart upload change that story?
Large object uploads are a reliability design problem, not a bandwidth one. Parts, retries and the completion call decide whether a flaky link costs one chunk or the whole night.
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