# Turso Cloud Goes Diskless: How We Built a Fully S3-Based Database Architecture

DevFeed: [Turso Cloud Goes Diskless: How We Built a Fully S3-Based Database Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/turso-cloud-goes-diskless-how-we-built-a-fully-s3-based-database-architecture-6064.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/turso-cloud-goes-diskless>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2025-04-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Multitenancy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multitenancy.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

Turso Cloud describes a diskless transactional database architecture that runs entirely on S3, including AWS S3 Express One Zone. The design removes local disks and simplifies Bring Your Own Cloud deployments while addressing scalability, reliability, multi-tenancy, compliance, and latency trade-offs.

## Source excerpt

How Turso Cloud runs a transactional SQLite database fully on S3 and S3 Express, removing local disks and unlocking Bring Your Own Cloud deployments.