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Amazon Web Services on Monday launched S3 Files, a feature that turns any S3 bucket into a mountable NFS filesystem. EC2 instances, Lambda functions, containers. All of them can now access S3 data through standard file operations. The service, built on Amazon's Elastic File System, delivers roughly 1-millisecond latencies for active data and supports up to 25,000 simultaneous compute connections per bucket, according to the company's announcement. It shipped in all commercial AWS regions after nine months of customer testing, GeekWire reported.
The feature addresses one of cloud computing's oldest infrastructure frustrations. For nearly two decades, developers who stored data in S3 had to copy it into a separate file system before any application, training pipeline, or AI agent could work with it using standard file operations. That duplication cost money and created synchronization headaches across entire organizations. No more, if AWS's pitch holds.
Harkaram Grewal
Maps the India–Germany–U.S. AI triangle from New Delhi. Background in cross-market operations and business development. Writes about supply chains, enterprise adoption, and talent—the unsexy forces that actually move global AI.
