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Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

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276 points Fendy | 4 comments | 08 Sep 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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resters ◴[08 Sep 25 16:21 UTC] No.45170203[source]▶
By hosting the vectors themselves, AWS can meta-optimize its cloud based on content characteristics. It may seem like not a major optimization, but at AWS scale it is billions of dollars per year. It also makes it easier for AWS to comply with censorship requirements.
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1. coredog64 ◴[08 Sep 25 17:01 UTC] No.45170758[source]▶
This comment appears to misunderstand the control plane/data plane distinction of AWS. AWS does have limited access to your control plane, primarily for things like enabling your TAMs to analyze your costs or getting assistance from enterprise support teams. They absolutely do not have access to your dataplane unless you specifically grant it. The primary use case for the latter is allowing writes into your storage for things like ALB access logs to S3. If you were deep in a debug session with enterprise support they might request one-off access to something large in S3, but I would be surprised if that were to happen.
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2. resters ◴[08 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45170783[source]▶
If that is the case why create a separate govcloud and HIPAA service?
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3. thedougd ◴[08 Sep 25 18:36 UTC] No.45172050[source]▶
HIPAA services are not separate. You only need to establish a Business Associations Addendum (BAA) with AWS and stick to HIPAA eligible services: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...

GovCloud exists so that AWS can sell to the US government and their contractors without impacting other customers who have different or less stringent requirements.

4. everfrustrated ◴[09 Sep 25 09:05 UTC] No.45179460[source]▶
Product segmentation. Certain customers self-select to pay more for the same thing.