if everyone committed to using tried-and-tested things that have worked for half a century we wouldn’t need to waste so many man hours on these types of tasks
lol I agree re:storytelling - thought it was a nice touch. gave the article a bit of flair that was more interesting to read than many eng blog posts that can be otherwise pretty dry
Using S3 as a storage layer and storing is certainly interesting, especially the argument to host on your customer's cloud, which would certainly reduce hosting costs.