S3 Files and the changing face of S3 (allthingsdistributed.com)

The article traces how early experience with moving large genomics datasets highlighted “data friction” between S3-style object storage and tools that expect POSIX-like filesystems. It then explains how the S3 team has responded by adding higher-level storage primitives—S3 Tables for structured data using managed Iceberg, and S3 Vectors for similarity search—before announcing S3 Files, which integrates Amazon EFS so existing S3 data can be accessed directly as a network-attached filesystem.