Posted On: Jun 30, 2023
You can now use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to create new files in Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and PUT. It is ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and write sequentially to a file from a single process or thread. Common use cases include machine learning training as well as rendering and transcoding in media applications.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 supports sequential and random read operations on existing files, and sequential write operations for creating new files. For details on supported file system operations with this release, please read the documentation.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source project and is available as an alpha release. We have made the alpha release of Mountpoint for Amazon S3 available to the community to collect feedback early and incorporate your input into the design and implementation. We welcome your contributions and your feedback on our roadmap which outlines the plan for adding new capabilities to Mountpoint for Amazon S3. To get started, please visit the GitHub page and the technical blog.