# How Scribd's Content Crush consolidates S3 objects for storage cost management

DevFeed: [How Scribd's Content Crush consolidates S3 objects for storage cost management](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/supercharging-s3-intelligent-tiering-with-content-crush-22562.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.scribd.com/blog/2026/content-crush.html>)

Author: R Tyler Croy

Published: 2026-01-12T00:00:00Z

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>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parquet.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [apache-parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-parquet.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-s3.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [featured](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/featured.md>), [object-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-storage.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Scribd describes Content Crush, a system that consolidates the many objects generated from uploaded documents and presentations into a single Apache Parquet file in Amazon S3 while preserving virtualized keyspace and retrieval semantics. The system addresses storage-management complexity and the cost of S3 Intelligent-Tiering monitoring at Scribd's scale.

## Source excerpt

Scribd and Slideshare have been using AWS S3 for almost twenty years and store hundreds of billions of objects making storage management quite a challenge. My focus at Scribd has generally been around data and storage but only in the past twelve months have I started to really focus on one of our hardest technology problems: cost-effective storage and availability for the hundreds of billions of objects that represent our content library.