[stevefan1999]

So...are we closer to getting to use S3 as a...you guessed it...a database? With CAS, we are probably able to get a basic level of atomicity, and S3 itself is pretty durable, now we have to deal with consistency and isolation...although S3 branded itself as "eventually consistent"...

[User23]

There was a great deal of interest in gossip protocols, eventual consistency, and such at Amazon in the mid oughts. So much so that they hired a certain Cornell professor along with the better part of his grad students to build out those technologies.

[mr_toad]

People who want all those features use something like Delta Lake on top of object storage.

[gynther]

S3 is strongly consistent since 4 years ago. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...