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Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

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276 points Fendy | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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. j45 ◴[08 Sep 25 20:46 UTC] No.45173752[source]▶
Also, if it's not encrypted, I'm not sure if AWS or others "synthesize" customer data by a cursory scrubbing of so called client identifying information, and then try to optimize and model for those scenarios at scale.

I do feel more and more some information in the corpus of AI models was done this way. A client's name and private identifiable information might not be in the model, but some patterns of how to do things sure seem to come up from such sources.