Read-After-Write Consistency in Amazon S3 — Shlomo SwidlerS3 has an “eventual consistency” model, which presents certain limitations on how S3 can be used. Today, Amazon released an improvement called “read-after-write-consistency” in the EU and US-west regions (it’s there, hidden at the bottom of the blog post). Here’s an explanation of what this is, and why it’s cool. What is Eventual Consistency? Consistency is a key concept in data storage: it descri
