AWS Podcast
#616: Mountpoint for Amazon S3
Aug 28, 2023
Devabrat Kumar, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon S3, discusses the launch of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, customer feedback, updates, improvements, customer interaction, use cases, access control, limitations, and active engagement of the project.
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- Mountpoint for Amazon S3 allows customers to mount an S3 bucket as a local file system, providing applications with access to the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3 through a familiar interface.
- Mountpoint for Amazon S3 has undergone continuous improvement based on customer feedback and collaboration, with added features and active participation in roadmap discussions, making it ready for production workloads with AWS support plans offering 24/7 access to cloud support engineers.
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Mount Point for Amazon S3: A New File Plan for High Throughput Access
Mount Point for Amazon S3 is an open source file plan that allows customers to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system. This provides applications with access to the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3 through a familiar local file system interface. With Mount Point, applications that were designed to work with a local file system can now read and write data in Amazon S3 with the same performance, reliability, and support provided by S3's object API and AWS SDKs. This new solution addresses the customer demand for a supported file plan for S3 and offers high throughput access for read-heavy workloads.
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