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Re:Will Amazon S3 Vectors Kill Vector Databases–Or Save Them? by libraryofbabel on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:15PM (#45172596)
If you can truly abstract away an internal detail, then great. But often there are design decisions that you cannot abstract away because they affect e.g. performance in a major way. For example, I don't care whether some AWS service is written in Java or Go or C++. I do care a bit about how its indexing and retrieval works, because I need to know that to plan my query workloads.

I actually think AWS did a reasonably good job of this with DynamoDB. Most of the performance tradeoffs, indexing etc., is pretty clear if you ready enough docs without exposing a ton of unnecessary internals.

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