Launching Route 53 Files

27 points | by louis-paul an hour ago

10 comments

  • mlhpdx 13 minutes ago

    At first I thought this was a general purpose file system over R53, ala Corey Quinn. But my, what a gorgeously terrible idea. Well done.

      colechristensen 11 minutes ago

      to be fair, it's also that just with some severe restrictions on filenames

  • ChiperSoft 39 minutes ago

    Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? Outside of various txt records, most of my domains are mapped to specific resources via automation.

      stackskipton 5 minutes ago

      Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.

      regularfry 24 minutes ago

      I don't think this is there to satisfy "need".

      But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.

        cperciva 18 minutes ago

        Files which aren't DNS keys get ignored by Route 53 Files. So you could absolutely have a git checkout and update your DNS with 'git pull'.

      cperciva 37 minutes ago

      There are apparently many people managing their S3 Objects by hand but long to have them in a file system, yes.

      colechristensen 15 minutes ago

      This is... well it's mostly a joke. It's funny but you can indeed use and interact with DNS as a file store or have a file system based control over records.

      Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/value stores.

      DNS also has considerably higher reliability and compatibility than almost anything else

      esseph 26 minutes ago

      > Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this?

      How many thousands or millions of employees does your org have?

  • GuinansEyebrows 41 minutes ago

        > Q. Is this HIPAA compliant?
        > A. Please do not store patient information in DNS.
    
    love this. reminds me a little of something else in the realm of DNS "hosting" posted to hn a few years ago [0][1]

    [0]https://banner.triweb.dev [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502097