AWS S3 Files - Bridging File Systems and Object Storage

Amazon Web Services recently introduced AWS S3 Files, a service that addresses a persistent challenge in cloud computing - how to give file-based applications direct access to object storage without duplicating data or building custom connectors. The Problem S3 Files Solves Traditionally, applications designed around file systems faced a difficult choice when working with Amazon S3: Use object APIs - Build custom integration code and refactor applications Duplicate data - Copy data between S3 and separate file systems, creating sync challenges and increased costs Accept performance trade-offs - Work with slower, network-dependent access patterns S3 Files eliminates these constraints by providing a native file system interface directly over S3 data. ...

April 9, 2026 · 4 min · James M

Monitoring

Overview A collection of monitoring and observability platforms for tracking system health, application performance, and infrastructure metrics. Tools AWS CloudWatch - Observe and monitor resources and applications on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds Datadog - Cloud Monitoring as a Service Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Application Security Management, Application Vulnerability Management, Cloud SIEM, Container Monitoring, Cost Management, CSPM, DB Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Sensitive Data Scanner, Service Catalog … Grafana - Open-source observability platform for metrics visualization and alerting Prometheus

January 21, 2022 · 1 min · James M