Announcing Amazon S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems

This article announces the general availability of Amazon S3 Files, a new service that enables AWS compute resources to access S3 buckets as file systems with full file system semantics and high performance.

• S3 buckets now accessible as shared file systems from any AWS compute resource
• File-based applications and AI agents can work with S3 data without code changes
• No data duplication or migration required; works with existing S3 data
• Built on Amazon EFS for performance with S3's scalability and cost-effectiveness
• Provides low-latency caching and multiple terabytes per second aggregate throughput
• Thousands of compute resources can simultaneously access the same S3 file system
• Generally available in 34 AWS Regions

S3 Files eliminates the need for separate file systems and complex data synchronization pipelines by providing unified access to S3 data through both file system and object storage APIs simultaneously.