TLDR Tech / DevOps
Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
Amazon S3 Files is a new capability that allows any S3 bucket to be mounted and accessed as a fully-featured file system directly from EC2 instances, containers, or Lambda functions, with ~1ms latencies for active data and automatic bidirectional synchronization between the file system and S3 bucket. The service is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and eliminates the traditional tradeoff between S3's object storage benefits and the interactive capabilities of file systems, making it particularly useful for collaborative workloads like AI agents and ML training pipelines that need shared, low-latency access to S3 data.
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