The latest articles on DEV Community by mzaza (@mzaza). https://dev.to/mzaza https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3806371%2Fd6e54baf-ab07-402d-95db-e518c215861e.png https://dev.to/mzaza en mzaza Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:22:34 +0000 https://dev.to/mzaza/serverless-cloud-native-strongly-consistent-replicated-state-machine-atop-s3-68k https://dev.to/mzaza/serverless-cloud-native-strongly-consistent-replicated-state-machine-atop-s3-68k <p>I'de like to introduce <a href="https://github.com/io-s2c/s2c" rel="noopener noreferrer">S2C</a> - a novel implementation of <em><strong>distributed consensus and state machine replication atop shared storage</strong></em> (AWS S3).</p> <p>It can be embedded in any JVM distributed application (e.g. microservices) to provide a strongly consistent medium for storing structured data (durable cache, key-value store, distributed atomic counter, etc.).</p> <p>It aims to simplify building strongly consistent data stores by avoiding maintaining majority of nodes and by offloading the quorum to S3. It can run as a single node and can survive full cluster crash. So S3 is used for storage and consensus.</p> <p>It is implemented in Java (more languages support coming).</p> opensource distributedsystems aws