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by napoleond 2339 days ago
The S3 files are mirrored to a local drive as a collection of plain .md, .jpg, etc. The Athena search index is secondary in importance to the source data and not necessarily permanent (presumably the options for "take this folder full of files and let me search it" will only improve over time).

That being said, one of the reasons I chose S3 vs. other AWS services or other companies is because I expect it to be around for a very long time. (Just because I've preserved the option of migrating away doesn't mean I relish the idea.)