Colin Percival launches Route 53 Files, an unofficial AWS DNS filesystem

The Tarsnap founder built a free service that lets UNIX commands edit Route 53 records, then documented the sharp edges in AWS's own voice.

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Route 53 Files turns a cloud infrastructure gag into a usable developer tool and a pointed demonstration of what one experienced founder can build on top of AWS primitives.

Colin Percival launches Route 53 Files, an unofficial AWS DNS filesystem — The Tarsnap founder built a free service that lets UNIX commands edit Route 53 records, then documented the sharp edges in AWS's own voice.

Colin Percival (@cperciva) launched Route 53 Files on August 27th, a free service that mounts Amazon Route 53 hosted zones as NFS file systems and represents DNS records as ordinary files. It is real enough to accept IAM roles and provision infrastructure inside a user's AWS account. It is unofficial enough that Percival's own FAQ answers the question of AWS affiliation with: "Of course not."…

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