I still see engineers storing user-uploaded photos in /var/www/uploads/ on an ext4 volume and wondering why their server falls over at 10M files. Meanwhile, the team next door threw the same photos into an S3 bucket and scaled to 100M files without breaking a sweat. The difference is the storag...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/ethan-carter/object-storage-vs-file-storage-when-to-use-which-2026-mc6)