S3 Mountpoint

an open source file client that makes it easy for your file-aware Linux applications to connect directly to S3

Mountpoint for S3 | Mouting point on Windows |

Overview

• A file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls such as GET and PUT.

• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.

Use cases

Ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and require the elasticity and high throughput of Amazon S3.

• Machine learning training

• Reprocessing and validation in autonomous vehicle data processing.

Install

Amazon Linux EC2 instance

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/mountpoint-s3-release/latest/x86_64/mount-s3.rpm
sudo yum install -y ./mount-s3.rpm

mount your bucket

mount-s3 DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET /path/to/mount

Trivia

• You can use Mountpoint to access S3 objects in all storage classes except S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, S3 Glacier Deep Archive, S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tier, and S3 Intelligent-Tiering Deep Archive Access Tier.