josephg/ShareJS — pull request #158 by mcolyer (2013-01-12 01:34:23+00:00)
Title: Amazon Backend Improvements

This branch includes several nice updates:

* Switch from aws2js to awssum (it's a better library)
* Removes the dynamo dependency as awssum has both s3 and dynamo support.
* Adds support for retrying failed requests upto 5 times before failing. Sometimes Amazon has errors and the expected behavior is for applications to retry their requests. I asked Amazon support about this.
* Allow independent configuration of s3 and dynamo regions (most probably don't need this but it's nice to have).
* Log out the Amazon request id for tracking issues with Amazon's customer support.
* Handles operations that are large than 64kb (dynamo's limit) by storing them in S3.

This branch is backwards compatible (no migration of user data is required) and I've had good success with this improvements in production in the last month.