Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver accelerates performance and supports SELinux

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now accelerates performance for repeatedly accessed data, adds support for Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) mount options, and simplifies logging and permissions management.

The latest version of the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver (v2) introduces four key capabilities. First, it adds support for caching data across multiple pods. By using the new caching capabilities in Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2, you can finish large-scale financial simulation jobs up to 2x faster by eliminating the overhead of multiple pods individually caching the same data. Second, you can now run your Kubernetes applications on SELinux-enabled environments like Red Hat OpenShift. Third, it lets you use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify how you manage access policies across Amazon EKS clusters, including cross-account access. Fourth, it simplifies how you access logs and get insights into your mounts by using kubectl, a command line tool.

To upgrade to Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI v2 driver, you can follow the installation guidance. You can install, configure, and update the CSI driver in the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), EKS Application Programming Interface (API), and AWS CloudFormation. For details on supported file system operations, visit the documentation.