AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
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Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense.
Key facts
- For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon's Route 53 DNS service is a database
- The reporter isn't saying that Route 53 Files can't be useful, as Corey notes, the API for Route 53 is awful, but the inspiration was 'this needs to be satirized' and the launch post was written
- The opening line of referring to Route 53 as Amazon's highest-availability database was partly a hat-tip to Corey," Percival told The Register
- In that spirit, Colin Percival, the creator of backup service Tarsnap, has released Route 53 Files, "a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's
Summary
Security Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia. Ai and ML Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop. DATABASES AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database. For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon's Route 53 DNS service is a database. While true in the sense that DNS records are stored key-value pairs, it's more of a provocation than an endorsement.