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Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes

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The article discusses a new feature added to Amazon S3, which allows for conditional writes to prevent overwriting existing objects.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using the PutObject or CompleteMultipartUpload API requests
  • This feature helps prevent applications from overwriting existing objects when uploading data
  • It simplifies how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel
  • Clients can conditionally write objects without building client-side consensus mechanisms or additional API requests
  • This enables better performance and efficiency for large-scale analytics, distributed machine learning, and other highly parallelized workloads
  • The feature is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions
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