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🚨 AWS just dropped one of the biggest S3 updates in a decade.
Most Software Engineers don't realize how big this is.
Before this update:
→ S3 was object storage only.
→ You couldn't mount it like a normal file system.
→ Applications had to copy data from S3 ⟹ EFS/EBS
⟹ Process ⟹ Upload back
→ This created extra cost, latency, and complex pipelines.
Now with S3 Files:
→ You can mount S3 like a file system.
→ Access data using normal tools (Linux, containers, AI, ML workloads)
→ No data duplication required.
→ Multiple compute resources can access same data simultaneously.
→ Low-latency performance with S3 scalability
What this means for engineers:
→ Simpler DevOps architectures
→ Faster data pipelines
→ Easier Kubernetes workloads
→ Better AI/ML data processing
→ Reduced infrastructure cost
Earlier:
S3 → Storage bucket (API only)
Now:
S3 → Shared file system + Object storage (Best of both worlds)
This removes one of the biggest limitations of S3.
Huge update for DevOps, Data Engineering, and AI workloads.
Amazon Web Services@awscloud
Announcing Amazon S3 Files. The first and only cloud object store with fully-featured, high-performance file system access. Learn more here. go.aws/4tw17Zg
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