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S3 actually uses a completely custom system[1] for writing bytes to disk. I haven't seen much in the way of details on the on-disk format but I certainly wouldn't assume it resembles a normal filesystem.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-automated-reasoning...



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