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They have actually been making S3 _more_ consistent over time: in the newer regions you get e.g. read-your-writes for object creation. DynamoDB also supports c
by justinsb 11y ago
They have actually been making S3 _more_ consistent over time: in the newer regions you get e.g. read-your-writes for object creation. DynamoDB also supports consistency, though still defaults to eventual consistency if you prefer.
In my mind, there's definitely a trend towards consistency here. I'd love to see an AWS blog post about the reasons behind this!
- zorked 11y agoWe should be glad. Eventual consistency is hard to reason about, particularly when its tradeoffs have to do with other people's systems...
- dbarlett 11y agoUS Standard now provides read-after-write consistency when accessed through the Northern Virginia endpoint [1]. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_data_consistency_model_does_Amazon_S3_employ http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_data_consistency_model_d...