Object stores like S3 work similarly, the entire path is to an object, and unless there is data at a path, the path doesn't exist. And you don't need to create

Object stores like S3 work similarly, the entire path is to an object, and unless there is data at a path, the path doesn't exist. And you don't need to create the prefix before storing something with that prefix. That the tooling abstracts that a way to make it look more like a filesystem is a layer on top.