alt Hacker News> There's not really a difference here between S3 and your disk, aside from the literal amount of latency.
Latency is the whole point.
> There's not really a difference here between S3 and your disk, aside from the literal amount of latency.
Latency is the whole point.
> Latency is the whole point.
The article's title is literally:
> What changes when your search index lives on S3?
None of this changes because your search index lives on S3; there's no property of S3 that says "this is an inherently better format for S3 than it is for disk". The format improvements are independent of the latency difference.