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spprashant on Nov 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)

I had no idea people rely on S3 beyond dumb storage. It almost feels like people are trying to build out a distributed OLAP database in the reverse direction.

amne on Nov 26, 2024 [–]

1. SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE S3

2. glue jobs to partition by some columns reporting uses

3. query with athena

4. ???

5. profit (celebrate reduced cost)

This thing costs couple $ a month for ~500gb of data. Snowflake wanted crazy amounts of money for the same thing.

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