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Re:S3 Strong Consistency by brian_herman on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:23PM (#25271853)
Yeah, I never had that problem either. But I wonder how they are addressing the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
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Re:S3 Strong Consistency by content_sesh on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:29PM (#25271915)
Sacrificing availability I reckon.
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Re:S3 Strong Consistency by riking on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:22PM (#25272582)
Yup, the correct answer in the face of a network partition is for the PUT to return 500, even though the file really was uploaded. The API handler can't prove success, due to the network partition, so the correct move is to declare failure and let the client activate their contingencies.
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