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100 seems an odd number to be a technological limitation, doesn't it? It's not a power of two or anything so it's not the size of an integer. How could technology have been limiting it?

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S3 bucket names are globally scoped - ie. they are literally scarce resources.

Technology in the sense that it was a hard coded variable, but it was picked arbitrarily.

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