Route53 as a Key Value Store, 2026 Edition

Five Years Later 🔗 Back in 2021 I &#xA; wrote about using Route53 Private Hosted Zone TXT records as a key-value store for GitHub Actions&#xA; . The trick is still good in 2026 — Route53 is cheap, durable, globally replicated, and you almost certainly already have an AWS account. I still use it. &#xA; But the implementation in that post has aged badly. Two things in particular: &#xA; &#xA; It…