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		DougBTX on May 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 S3 doesn't format the size for human display, the object's Size is returned in bytes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Object.h...

gymbeaux on June 5, 2024 [–]

What I meant to say was S3 uses 2^20 to convert from bytes to kilobytes rather than 10^6 (e.g. what Windows uses).

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/s3-console-metric-discre...

> 3 console and Storage Lens use base 2 conversion (/1024) to report storage metrics, and CloudWatch by default uses base 10 conversion (/1000)

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