Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a high-throughput file client that mounts an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
Applications can access stored objects through familiar file operations such as open, read, list, and write, which Mountpoint translates into S3 object API requests.
The software is optimised for reading large objects from multiple clients and writing new objects sequentially. It does not implement a complete POSIX file system and is unsuitable for workloads that require features such as editing existing files, symbolic links, or directory renaming.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Mounts Amazon S3 buckets as local file systems.
- Provides high-throughput access to large S3 objects.
- Translates file operations into Amazon S3 API requests.
- Reads objects without downloading them to local storage first.
- Supports concurrent access to objects from multiple clients.
- Writes new objects sequentially to S3.
- Uploads local files using standard tools such as cp.
- Supports access through EC2 IAM roles, environment variables, and other AWS credential providers.
- Offers packages for RPM-based distributions and Ubuntu.
- Supports x86-64 and Arm64 systems.
- Integrates with Kubernetes through the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver.
Website: github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3
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Developer: Amazon Web Services
License: Apache License 2.0
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| S3 File Systems | |
|---|---|
| ZeroFS | Filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage |
| GeeseFS | POSIX-ish S3 file system |
| s3fs | Mount an S3 bucket via FUSE |
| gcsfuse | Cloud Storage FUSE |
| rclone | Command line program to sync files and directories |
| Garage | S3-compatible distributed object storage service |
| Goofys | S3 backend filey-system interface |
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