Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers

Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by mbell on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:45PM (#18585053)

> What about DynamoDB?

From what I recall DynamoDB is a somewhat hacky API layer over a bunch of MySQL clusters. I'm not sure anyone would, or should, attempt to use a non-managed version of it.

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by chrisseaton on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:15PM (#18585684)

Where do you recall that from? Your description doesn’t match their published paper in any way.

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by manigandham on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:33PM (#18586339)

DynamoDB is different from their published paper, which is mostly about designing a highly available key/value system that can be run on top of any other datastore. The paper does mention MySQL as a storage option.

The recent MySQL info comes from this 2016 thread on DynamoDB storing empty strings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170746

Confirmed by this comment specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13173927

The latest 2018 ReInvent deep dive on DynamoDB doesn't reveal anything but still fits if mysql is powering the storage nodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by iampims on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:18PM (#18585916)

My understanding is that DynamoDB != Dynamo Paper

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