i am not using s3 as a just a file store, we are using it as an XML store most of the time, so in essence its replacing my need for a DB, which is hard to scale

i am not using s3 as a just a file store, we are using it as an XML store most of the time, so in essence its replacing my need for a DB, which is hard to scale. we have a smart client so as long as i can publish xml, smart widget can read it, and since we are not using javascript, we can read XML so effortlessly in flash.