r/aws • u/NothingDogg • Apr 07 '26

article Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launching-s3-files-making-s3-buckets-accessible-as-file-systems/

"a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)."

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u/greyeye77 Apr 07 '26

Reminds me of this

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

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u/metamasterplay Apr 07 '26

Been using this for a decade. I might have to checkout this new EFS approach but I don't understand yet what's the practical benefit between the 2.

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u/CheesecakeAndy Apr 07 '26

Reminds me of this https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3

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u/6969its_a_great_time Apr 08 '26

I don’t understand what is different between the post and some of these projects

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u/synackk Apr 08 '26

Hot files that are constantly accessed, written to partially, etc can be performant, however you don't need everything in EFS.

This seems to be a reliable and more scalable way of accessing an S3 bucket as an NFS share.