Launching Route 53 Files

GuinansEyebrows

> Q. Is this HIPAA compliant? > A. Please do not store patient information in DNS. love this. reminds me a little of something else in the realm of DNS "hosting" posted to hn a few years ago [0][1] [0] https://banner.triweb.dev [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502097

ChiperSoft

Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? Outside of various txt records, most of my domains are mapped to specific resources via automation.

mlhpdx

At first I thought this was a general purpose file system over R53, ala Corey Quinn. But my, what a gorgeously terrible idea. Well done.

dbarlett

Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.

tonymet

Am I the only one who thinks that read() and write () (block based api) would be a poorer experience for managing key/value dns records?

threecheese

A “schema that reads like XML that learned JSON in prison” IM DEAD Stealing this. Gold lies at the intersection of cperciva and quinnypig.

YesThatTom2

This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. Have you seen DNSControl? If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSControl. It's like Terraform for DNS but it doesn't suck like Terraform. Version v5.0 just shipped. It's a major rewrite that makes it much more extensible. https://github.com/DNSControl/dnscontrol/releases/tag/v5.0.0

dougcalobrisi

Route53 makes a great, simple, HA key-value store for some use cases. I've used it in GitHub Actions when nothing else was easily available to store values and put a little post together explaining how a while back. For many things, there isn't a reason for more complexity. https://doug.sh/posts/route53-as-a-key-value-store-2026-edit...

stackghost

Fun! Reminds me of https://github.com/nathanvy/dnsbbs

ahachete

Good job, Colin. I see you are following the Dyna53 [1] steps ;) What a school of thought you have sparked, Corey! [1]: https://dyna53.io/