<story><title>Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-goodreads-offloads-amazon-dynamodb-tables-to-amazon-s3-and-queries-them-using-amazon-athena/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>I use Goodreads as my main book tracker and reviewer. My impression is that Amazon bought it for whatever reason, and then ignored it. It seems like there&amp;#x27;s so much more potential to a social community around books than what Goodreads offers. The UI also never fails to disappoint. One of the core user features, searching for books, has all sorts of weird quirks. I&amp;#x27;ll use a very specific query that should guarantee a hit, and nothing comes up. Or, the book that I want will come up for a second, and right as I&amp;#x27;m going to select it, the results completely change and the book I want has vanished.</text></comment>
<story><title>Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-goodreads-offloads-amazon-dynamodb-tables-to-amazon-s3-and-queries-them-using-amazon-athena/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polskibus</author><text>Weren&amp;#x27;t Goodreads bought by Amazon a couple of years ago? If so, they might&amp;#x27;ve been pushed to do the move (to microservices, s3, etc) to comply with corporate guidelines&amp;#x2F;policy not because there wasn&amp;#x27;t a better&amp;#x2F;more efficient way to scale.</text></comment>