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Interesting catch. I'm wondering how Jira was very successful in the early days without spending much on marketing / sales and without mojo :)

CloudRail doesn't touch the data. Everything flows P2P between the app and the provider. It's like if you integrate the native AWS SDK. So even if CloudRail goes completely down, your integrations will keep running.

As I understood it, it is more a solution for dev-ops to create the infrastructure. Like a provider agnostic CloudFormation. CloudRail is about making it super simple to integrate APIs into an app.

Thanks. I'll correct that typo asap but currently I don't want to clear the cache :)

I know, but it's the limitation on characters for headlines on HN. Isn't it clear with S3, which is storage only?

Even if you don't want to switch and believe in non changing APIs, it is easier to integrate with CloudRail :) But as already mentioned, this interface is really part of a bigger offering. We want to handle all your integrations eventually and enterprise cloud storage has to be part of that.

Thanks! We'll address this in our documentation.

Sounds amazing. I'll make sure to reach out to you tomorrow.

Very good question. Of course all services behave a little differently which is out of our control. To be honest, I don't have an exact answer on that. In my first tests I could chain a download directly after the upload with all services. But I don't know if that's because they're all guaranteed to be read-after-write or some were eventually-consistent just really fast. In general, if one service is read-after-write and you want to switch it for one that isn't you might get problems, unless you've programmed defensively (checking for existence before proceeding). Give us some time to check that and run some more tests.

Definitely a good alternative until we have a Python SDK :)

Nope, we don't use it but it is a very cool project. We have SDKs for Android, Objective-C, Swift, Java and Node.js so far. That's why we couldn't us it anyways. We don't want to compete with open source projects like this. Our goal is to offer easy integrations for all platforms and all major use cases (not only cloud storage). Btw, to support open source, we made our solution free for non commercial projects.