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Jeff's original request for S3 was, as I recall, along the lines of "We need malloc() for the Internet."

What was the malloc's original usecase? Storing logs?

Manual memory allocation in the C programming language.

Sigh, seriously, though. Some people tell me they used to store the Clickstream logs on S3 initially, because FTP was so unreliable.

Anyway, I don't expect Jeff Barr to answer that question, although I'd be happy if he did.