Overview
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instance and access it as a local file system. It automatically translates local file system API calls to REST API calls on S3 objects. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is optimized for high-throughput performance. It builds on the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) library, which is purpose-built for high performance and low-resource usage to make efficient use of your compute resources.
Benefits
When to use Mountpoint for Amazon S3
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and require the elasticity and high throughput of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Common use cases include large-scale machine learning (ML) training, autonomous vehicle simulation, genomics analysis, and image rendering. While these workloads read large datasets over several compute instances, they write sequentially to a file from a single node. This means they do not need shared file system features such as locking.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is designed around the tenet that it exposes the native performance of Amazon S3 and doesn’t support file system operations that can’t be efficiently implemented against S3 object APIs. This means Mountpoint for Amazon S3 doesn't try to emulate shared file system features that have no close analog in S3 object APIs. For applications that require shared file system features such as file locking and POSIX permissions, you can use Amazon FSx for Lustre with a data repository association to your S3 bucket.
How it works
Customers
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Continental
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Amagi
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