What changes when your search index lives on S3?(infino.ai)
13 points by tatvamasi | 11 comments
Infino blog post discussing the design implications of storing a search index on Amazon S3 object storage.
#amazon-s3 on Hacker News
7 stories tagged amazon-s3, newest first.
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)
56 points by tkhattra | 61 comments
Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.
S3 Files(allthingsdistributed.com)
356 points by werner | 105 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on the launch of S3 Files, which makes S3 buckets accessible as file systems, and how S3 has evolved.
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)(aws.amazon.com)
500 points by Sirupsen | 146 comments
AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.
Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
571 points by huntaub | 308 comments
Launch HN post introducing Regatta Storage, a pay-as-you-go cloud file system that caches and syncs S3 data with local-like POSIX performance.
S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)
535 points by todsacerdoti | 400 comments
Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3(allthingsdistributed.com)
700 points by werner | 135 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on how Amazon S3 is built and operated at massive scale, from hard drives to organizational practices.