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

S3 Files delivers a shared file system that connects any AWS compute resource directly with your data in Amazon S3. With S3 Files, Amazon S3 is the first and only cloud object store that provides fully-featured, high-performance file system access to your data. It provides full file system semantics and low-latency performance, without your data ever leaving S3. That means file-based applications, agents, and teams can now access and work with your S3 data as a file system using the tools they already depend on. Built using Amazon EFS, S3 Files gives you the performance and simplicity of a file system with the scalability, durability, and cost-effectiveness of S3. You no longer need to duplicate your data or cycle it between object storage and file system storage. S3 Files maintains a view of the objects in your bucket and intelligently translates your file system operations into efficient S3 requests on your behalf. Your file-based applications run on your S3 data with no code changes, AI agents persist memory and share state across pipelines, and ML teams run data preparation workloads without duplicating or staging files first. Now, file-based tools and applications across your organization can work with your S3 data directly from any compute instance, container, and function using the tools your teams and agents already depend on.

Organizations store their analytics data and data lakes in S3, but file-based tools, agents, and applications have never been able to directly work with that data. Bridging that gap meant managing a separate file system, duplicating data, and building complex pipelines to keep object and file storage in sync. S3 Files eliminates that friction and overhead. Using S3 Files, your data is accessible through the file system and directly through S3 APIs at the same time. Thousands of compute resources can connect to the same S3 file system simultaneously, enabling shared access across clusters without duplicating data. S3 Files works with all of your new and existing data in S3 buckets, with no migration required.

S3 Files caches actively used data for low-latency access and provides up to multiple terabytes per second of aggregate read throughput, so storage never limits performance. There are no data silos, no synchronization complexities, and no tradeoffs. File and object storage, together in one place without compromise.

S3 Files is now generally available in 34 AWS Regions. For the full list of supported Regions, visit the AWS Capabilities tool. To learn more, visit the product page, S3 pricing page, documentation, and AWS News Blog.