Amazon S3 Statistics: More Than 449 Billion Objects Stored in S3

We have written about Cloud Computing statistics before. We spotted this today:

"Amazon Web Services announced Tuesday afternoon that its Simple Storage Service (S3) now houses more than 449 billion objects. The rapid pace of S3?s growth is a microcosm of both AWS’s overall business as well as cloud computing, in general.

At Structure 2011 last month, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told the crowd S3 was storing 339 billion objects. At this same time last year, the service was only storing 262 billion objects. "

Statistics Source: GigaOm