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.
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.
Key Features and Roadmap of Mount Point for Amazon S3
Mount Point for Amazon S3 has seen continuous improvement based on customer feedback and requirements. Since its initial alpha release, new features have been added, including support for creating new files using sequential writes, writing to a specific storage class, and file deletion operations. Customer input and collaboration have been integral to the project's development, with code contributions, active participation in roadmap discussions, and feedback on specific use cases. The general availability of Mount Point brings confidence as it is now ready for production workloads, with AWS support plans offering 24/7 access to cloud support engineers.
Use Cases and Performance of Mount Point for Amazon S3
Mount Point for Amazon S3 is ideal for use cases that require reading and writing data from Amazon S3 using a file interface. These use cases include machine learning training, data processing for autonomous vehicles, image rendering, and genomics analysis. The performance of Mount Point matches that of S3's object APIs and SDKs, providing high single-instance and aggregate throughput. With aggregate throughput potential of multiple terabytes per second, Mount Point delivers the native performance of Amazon S3. While Mount Point does not support caching yet, it is being evaluated for future enhancements, and access to data is controlled using existing S3 access control mechanisms such as bucket policies and IAM policies.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a new open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instance and access it as a local file system. In this episode, Simon is joined by Devabrat Kumar, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon S3, to discuss the launch of Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and how customer feedback has driven the evolution of this feature.
Mountpoint blog: https://bit.ly/3skIddG
Mountpoint website: https://bit.ly/45qWZ15
Mountpoint user guide: https://bit.ly/45qK7YV
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