Amazon S3 Files gives AI agents a native file system workspace, ending the object-file split that breaks multi-agent pipelines

Amazon S3 Files mounts any S3 bucket directly into an agent's local environment, giving AI agents native file system access to enterprise data without a separate storage layer. AWS says the ...
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Unified file and object storage: The best of both worlds?

Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, ...
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Five key points on file locking vs object locking

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...
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Top 14 File And Object Storage Leaders: Gartner Magic Quadrant

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...