It's a neat idea for a SaaS to just host the control-plane/metadata and allow customers to write to their own data store via S3. I can't think of too many other systems work that way - it certainly is operationally simpler but I wonder if it also gets you some compliance wins.
I wonder if we'll eventually standardize on a cloud-agnostic S3-like protocol but for locking and fast transactional writes so we can just have companies building pure software again but using standardized Cloud instead of POSIX APIs.
I wonder if we'll eventually standardize on a cloud-agnostic S3-like protocol but for locking and fast transactional writes so we can just have companies building pure software again but using standardized Cloud instead of POSIX APIs.