S3 - What Exactly Is A Prefix? And what Ratelimits apply?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew what exactly an s3 prefix was and how it interacts with amazon\'s published s3 rate limits:

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Answer 1

This looks like it is obscurely addressed in an amazon release communication

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3-announces-increased-request-rate-performance/

Performance scales per prefix, so you can use as many prefixes as you need in parallel to achieve the required throughput. There are no limits to the number of prefixes.

This S3 request rate performance increase removes any previous guidance to randomize object prefixes to achieve faster performance. That means you can now use logical or sequential naming patterns in S3 object naming without any performance implications. This improvement is now available in all AWS Regions. For more information, visit the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.