(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)
I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).
Oh, I was being facetious. I'm pretty sure Jeff mentioned needing to spend time writing a style guide when he started having other Amazonians write posts for "his" blog.
I think its best usecase can be in agentic automation from what I can understand so far. I don't know if this is the correct read on the design choice; please correct me if I'm wrong.
If models/agents don't have to learn the various Route 53 & DNS API, and (with some guardrails) execute DNS jobs looking at it like a filesystem, it could make deployment automation quite simpler - and less prone to looping over wild esoteric solutions. (A year ago I asked Gemini about a Vertex deployment and it was a mess going through two dozen weird circus tricks - none that worked). FWIW a lot of the final knob pushes still require someone using a browser & clicking bunch of buttons. This simplifies it. "Everything is a file in UNIX" idea, but carried over to DNS & resource management
Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? Outside of various txt records, most of my domains are mapped to specific resources via automation.
But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.
This is... well it's mostly a joke. It's funny but you can indeed use and interact with DNS as a file store or have a file system based control over records.
Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/value stores.
DNS also has considerably higher reliability and compatibility than almost anything else
(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)
As a non-Amazonian I've never seen it, of course.
If models/agents don't have to learn the various Route 53 & DNS API, and (with some guardrails) execute DNS jobs looking at it like a filesystem, it could make deployment automation quite simpler - and less prone to looping over wild esoteric solutions. (A year ago I asked Gemini about a Vertex deployment and it was a mess going through two dozen weird circus tricks - none that worked). FWIW a lot of the final knob pushes still require someone using a browser & clicking bunch of buttons. This simplifies it. "Everything is a file in UNIX" idea, but carried over to DNS & resource management
But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.
Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/value stores.
DNS also has considerably higher reliability and compatibility than almost anything else
How many thousands or millions of employees does your org have?
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