AWS launches "Amazon S3 Files," making Amazon S3 accessible as a file system

AWS has launched Amazon S3 Files, a new feature that lets Amazon S3 buckets be used like a file system.

Built on Amazon EFS, it translates file-system access into S3 requests while keeping the underlying S3 data unchanged.

Users can mount it via NFS clients and share it as a common file system across Linux and Windows environments.

The update makes object storage easier to use with existing apps and operations by giving S3 a more familiar OS-level file interface.