> I also sent Werner an email asking if it would be suitable to use DynamoDB as a block device — you could then build a filesystem on top and benefit from Dynam

> I also sent Werner an email asking if it would be suitable to use DynamoDB as a block device — you could then build a filesystem on top and benefit from DynamoDB features like replication, consistency, etc. This. 100 times. A filesystem was my first thought when DDB was announced last year. I can't imagine it would be harder to build than GridFS was. [1] That said, I'm not talking about a FUSE-like filesystem. More like HDFS or GridFS -- a blobstore+ if you will. [1] http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/gridfs/ http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/gridfs/