Route 53 Files turns DNS into a file system you can edit with vi
Launching Route 53 Files
Colin Percival announces Route 53 Files, a new file system that mounts AWS Route 53 hosted zones as NFS volumes on EC2, ECS, EKS, or Lambda. You can edit DNS records with standard UNIX tools like echo, tee, and ln, and changes propagate to live DNS in about 90 seconds. It supports concurrent access, last-write-wins conflict resolution, and integrates with IAM. The service is free, but you pay for underlying AWS resources. It's available in all commercial regions except Bahrain and UAE.
Because it's funnier.
- ahachete
Good job, Colin.
I see you are following the Dyna53 [1] steps ;) What a school of thought you have sparked, Corey!
[1]: https://dyna53.io/
- dbarlett
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.
- threecheese
A “schema that reads like XML that learned JSON in prison” IM DEAD
Stealing this. Gold lies at the intersection of cperciva and quinnypig.
- mlhpdx
At first I thought this was a general purpose file system over R53, ala Corey Quinn. But my, what a gorgeously terrible idea. Well done.
- dougcalobrisi
Route53 makes a great, simple, HA key-value store for some use cases. I've used it in GitHub Actions when nothing else was easily available to store values and put a little post together explaining how a while back. For many things, there isn't a reason for more complexity.
https://doug.sh/posts/route53-as-a-key-value-store-2026-edit...