[falconertc]

Part of this is a consequence of Amazon's hesitance towards shutting down old features. They are getting better at this lately, but S3 remains an example of a system with too many ways of doing things simply because they don't want to take the step of eliminating legacy functionality.

[echelon]

Introduce S4 [1] with a reduced set of configuration options and nudge customers into using it instead. Then eventually make it the default and encourage migrations.

[1] I know the name doesn't make sense.

[treyd]

Super Simple Storage Service