(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)
I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).
Oh, I was being facetious. I'm pretty sure Jeff mentioned needing to spend time writing a style guide when he started having other Amazonians write posts for "his" blog.
> cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians
A little bit of Canadian/non-American English slipped in (eg. enrol, behaviour), which AFAIK would have been flagged for a real Amazon post because as Americans we were brave enough to get rid of the 'U' in a lot of British words, like 'colour' and 'armour'.
But by God, we kept the British 'U' in the word 'glamour'.
Yeah, I was aware of those... but I just couldn't bring myself to write American, especially in the current political climate. You can consider those a non-tariff trade barrier.
As a heavily disaffected American (who still can't wrap his head around the fact that we let this happen twice) I support any form of protest against us.
Route53 makes a great, simple, HA key-value store for some use cases. I've used it in GitHub Actions when nothing else was easily available to store values and put a little post together explaining how a while back. For many things, there isn't a reason for more complexity.
And route53 makes DNSSEC very easy to enable so all the DNS data is cryptographic signed. This makes putting public keys and certificates in DNS much more sensible.
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.
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.
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
This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Have you seen DNSControl?
If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSControl. It's like Terraform for DNS but it doesn't suck like Terraform.
Version v5.0 just shipped. It's a major rewrite that makes it much more extensible.
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.
Wait, there's an official style guide?
(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)
I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).
Oh, I was being facetious. I'm pretty sure Jeff mentioned needing to spend time writing a style guide when he started having other Amazonians write posts for "his" blog.
As a non-Amazonian I've never seen it, of course.
> cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians
A little bit of Canadian/non-American English slipped in (eg. enrol, behaviour), which AFAIK would have been flagged for a real Amazon post because as Americans we were brave enough to get rid of the 'U' in a lot of British words, like 'colour' and 'armour'.
But by God, we kept the British 'U' in the word 'glamour'.
Yeah, I was aware of those... but I just couldn't bring myself to write American, especially in the current political climate. You can consider those a non-tariff trade barrier.
That's entirely fair.
As a heavily disaffected American (who still can't wrap his head around the fact that we let this happen twice) I support any form of protest against us.
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.
You might note who the customer quote is from.
to be fair, it's also that just with some severe restrictions on filenames
A “schema that reads like XML that learned JSON in prison” IM DEAD
Stealing this. Gold lies at the intersection of cperciva and quinnypig.
Route53 makes a great, simple, HA key-value store for some use cases. I've used it in GitHub Actions when nothing else was easily available to store values and put a little post together explaining how a while back. For many things, there isn't a reason for more complexity.
https://doug.sh/posts/route53-as-a-key-value-store-2026-edit...
And route53 makes DNSSEC very easy to enable so all the DNS data is cryptographic signed. This makes putting public keys and certificates in DNS much more sensible.
I dug into the DNSSEC rabbit hole a few weeks ago and got drawn into the fascinating root key signing ceremony.
https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/62
neat, thanks
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.
There are apparently many people managing their S3 Objects by hand but long to have them in a file system, yes.
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.
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'.
Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.
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
> 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? And how many projects deployed over the decades?
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Fun! Reminds me of https://github.com/nathanvy/dnsbbs
Am I the only one who thinks that read() and write () (block based api) would be a poorer experience for managing key/value dns records?
This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Have you seen DNSControl?
If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSControl. It's like Terraform for DNS but it doesn't suck like Terraform.
Version v5.0 just shipped. It's a major rewrite that makes it much more extensible.
https://github.com/DNSControl/dnscontrol/releases/tag/v5.0.0