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S3 isn't a file system? There's a reason it's called buckets. There's no 'renaming' of any file in S3. I don't think AWS had S3 as file system in mind. There's

S3 isn't a file system? There's a reason it's called buckets. There's no 'renaming' of any file in S3. I don't think AWS had S3 as file system in mind. There's EBS for that.

optimalsolver 6y ago
>There's EBS for that Don't you have to spin up an EC2 instance to use that?
- Aperocky 6y ago
  You can keep it standalone or use it across multiple EC2 instances per my understanding.
- stevekemp 6y ago
  Lambdas can use EBS these days, for persistent storage.
  - Dunedan 6y ago
    You might be confusing EBS (Elastic Block Storage) with EFS (Elastic File System): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-efs-for-aws-lambda-in-your-serverless-applications/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-efs-for-aw...
ComputerGuru 6y ago
To be fair, EBS rolled out many years after.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> I don't think AWS had S3 as file system in mind. There's EBS for that. EBS isn't a file system, it's lower level than that (it's. block store, hence the name; you bring your own filesystem.) EFS and FSx are filesystems.
- Aperocky 6y ago
  Thanks for correcting.