# Engineering Around Extreme S3 Scale at Scribd

DevFeed: [Engineering Around Extreme S3 Scale at Scribd](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/screaming-in-the-cloud-22566.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.scribd.com/blog/2026/screaming-in-the-cloud.html>)

Author: R Tyler Croy

Published: 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Scribd Tech](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scribd-tech.md>)

Topics: [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-s3.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [featured](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/featured.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [scribd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scribd.md>), [talk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talk.md>), [youtube](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/youtube.md>)

## AI overview

Scribd discusses engineering challenges at extreme AWS S3 scale, including checking whether files are damaged, controlling costs, and consolidating objects to reduce spending. The discussion is also available as audio and video.

## Source excerpt

Scribd has absolutely fascinating data-at-scale type problems, all the way down to the fundamentals of how we use AWS S3. In my previous post I wrote about the design of Content Crush and how Scribd is consolidating objects in S3 to minimize our costs. Related to that work I was fortunate enough to join the (in)famous Corey Quinn to talk about Engineering around Extreme S3 scale: