[hoodoof]

Perhaps true.

I'll never do that though because I'd have to use DynamoDB, which is a technology that is high on my list of "technologies that I am least enthused about".

Also, I really shouldn't have to go to all the work of creating and maintaining a metadata database and implementing a query API just because I want to do searches more powerful than "list all objects" - that's Amazon's job.

[maxaf]

Moreover, even if you had gone to the trouble of building such an API, S3 still doesn't offer bulk operations, so you'd have to operate on each matching object... one object at a time.

[hoodoof]

This isn't such an issue because you can update the DynamoDB index using an AWS Lambda function on every putobject or removeobject event.

It's still not something I want to do, mainly because I'd have to touch DynamoDB but secondly because, well, why the heck doesn't AWS do it?

[LightskinKanye]

What do you have against DynamoDB?