Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

With the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. As a result, distributed machine learning training jobs in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters can read data from Amazon S3 at high throughput to accelerate training times.

The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver supports sequential and random read operations on existing files and sequential write operations for creating new files. For details on supported file system operations, visit the documentation. Amazon EKS supports the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver as an EKS add-on. You can install, configure, and update the CSI driver with just a few clicks in Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), EKS Application Programming Interface (API), and AWS CloudFormation.

With this launch, the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver is now available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, follow the user guide.