How S3 Encryption Nearly Halved Throughput for a High-Traffic Service — and the Fix We Built

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When S3 Encryption Began to Stall a High-Traffic Streaming Service In early 2021 our team ran a streaming analytics service that reads and transforms terabytes of user-uploaded blobs daily