Posted On: Mar 2, 2025
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 any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. As a result, distributed machine learning training jobs in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters can read data from Amazon S3 at high throughput to accelerate training times.
The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver supports sequential and random read operations on existing files and sequential write operations for creating new files. Amazon EKS supports the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver as an EKS add-on. You can install, configure, and update the CSI driver with just a few clicks in Amazon EKS console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), EKS Application Programming Interface (API), and Amazon CloudFormation.
With this launch, the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To get started, follow the user guide.