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by ignoramous 1882 days ago
Conditional PUTs aren't possible with versioned objects, but if you desire immutability, then they do help.

To implement serialisation, (as opposed to using Conditional PUTs) one could implement a ledger on top of versioned buckets with LegalHolds: Basically, the object versions part of the main chain are LegalHolded whilst other versions are reconcilled (rebased) onto main and later deleted. Tricky to implement, for sure, compared to say, maintaining a journal in DynamoDB to track PUTs to maintain serial integrity.