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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by nijave on Saturday June 18, 2022 @09:03AM (#31789477)
AWS recommends using dynamo and has a Java reference implementation. Afaik GCP doesn't support locks either. Azure supports locks on blob store (their object store service)
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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by GordonS on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:08AM (#31789964)
Ah, someone mentioned it in reference to Azure Blob Storage recently, and I had (apparently incorrectly) assumed it was also an S3 feature.

Any reason Azure Blob Storage couldn't be used as a no-setup, managed, cheap way to acquire distributed locks?

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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by skyde on Saturday June 18, 2022 @11:33AM (#31790763)
azure blob store is literally used as a cheap way to acquire distributed lock today by the azure sdk.

if you look at azure event hub library they use blob as lock to partition the consumer instances at runtime.

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