10 billion photos

This post marks a significant milestone in Meta's photo infrastructure by announcing the upload of over 10 billion photos. It quantifies the scale of this achievement by detailing that over 40 billion files are stored (4 sizes per photo), with daily uploads of 2-3 Terabytes, a total storage of over 1 petabyte, and serving over 15 billion photo images per day, peaking at over 300,000 images served per second. This data highlights the immense scale of photo storage and serving infrastructure at Meta.