[dangoodmanUT]

You defintiely can use S3 for appending to a WAL (I've done it), they have read-after-write consistency

[ddorian43]

You're doing it for large OLAP writes. But as soon as you do OLTP or small writes it will become very slow & expensive.

See warpstream as example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036291

[rowls66]

How about using Kafka for the WAL? Anybody tried that?

[ddorian43]

LogDevice or apache bookeeper is better for distributed log.