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huhtenberg on May 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos

Do they also delete photos from a backend database backup that might've occurred after the upload but before the user cancelled the photo?

sghael on May 1, 2012 [–]

The photo isn't store in a database. It's stored on S3. They are not backing up S3, so this concern is misplaced.

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