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by maldeh 3186 days ago
> Anything that can go to dynamo, can go to s3, especially at that volume.

Please think very carefully before architecting your app with S3 as a makeshift-database. S3 would be a valid option if you don't care about millisecond latency; don't require safe updates; never expect your application to scale past 100 requests per second; and don't have multiple query patterns for the same data (unless you're okay with several redundant copies of the same dataset). Consider just about any other database solution if this does not hold true.

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I am going to say that I did this, and will add "are willing to pay some insane amount of money to store and manipulate your data" (this was a mistake that cost me at least one if not two hundred thousand dollars).
Could you explain more please about what you mean?