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Access Amazon S3 objects with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver

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With the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access Amazon S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without changing any application code. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an Amazon S3 bucket as a volume that can be accessed by containers in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters.

Considerations

  • The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver isn’t presently compatible with Windows-based container images.

  • The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver isn’t presently compatible with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes.

  • The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver doesn’t support AWS Fargate. However, containers that are running in Amazon EC2 (either with Amazon EKS or a custom Kubernetes installation) are supported.

  • The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver supports only static provisioning. Dynamic provisioning, or creation of new buckets, isn’t supported.

    Note

    Static provisioning refers to using an existing Amazon S3 bucket that is specified as the bucketName in the volumeAttributes in the PersistentVolume object. For more information, see Static Provisioning on GitHub.

  • Volumes mounted with the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver don’t support all POSIX file-system features. For details about file-system behavior, see Mountpoint for Amazon S3 file system behavior on GitHub.

For details on deploying the driver, see Deploy the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 driver. For details on removing the driver, see Remove the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Amazon EKS add-on.

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