The Question
Design
Object Storage System
Design a large-scale object storage service similar to AWS S3. The system should provide durable and highly available blob storage, support versioning and access control policies, deliver objects via a global CDN, and handle exabytes of data across multiple availability zones.
Consistent Hashing
Erasure Coding
LSM-Tree
Distributed KV Store
Async Task Queue
February 5, 2026