alt Hacker NewsLaunching Route 53 Files
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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.
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...
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.
> Q. Is this HIPAA compliant?
> A. Please do not store patient information in DNS.
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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
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.