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  "name": "Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)",
  "description": "Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service designed for online backup and archiving of data and application programs. It was the first publicly available web service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has since become the industry standard for object storage in the cloud.",
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  "category": "Cloud Computing",
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      "slug": "azure-blob-storage",
      "name": "Azure Blob Storage"
    },
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      "name": "Cloud Storage Buckets"
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-11T15:28:10.812+00:00",
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    "founded": "2006",
    "headquarters": "Seattle, WA, USA",
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