Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access

You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, your file data in FSx for OpenZFS is effortlessly accessible for use with the broad range of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics services and applications that work with S3 while your file data continues to reside in your FSx for OpenZFS file system.

An S3 Access Point is an endpoint that helps control and simplify how different applications or users can access data. S3 Access Points now work with FSx for OpenZFS so that applications and services can access file data in FSx for OpenZFS as if the data were in S3, using the S3 API. You can discover new insights, innovate faster, and make even better data-driven decisions with your data in FSx for OpenZFS. For example, you can use your file data to augment generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock, train machine learning models with Amazon SageMaker, run analysis using Amazon Glue or a wide range of AWS Data and Analytics Competency Partner solutions, and run workflows using S3-based cloud-native applications.

Get started with this capability by creating and attaching S3 Access Points to your FSx for OpenZFS file systems using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK) in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). To learn more, visit the product page, user guide, and AWS News Blog.