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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Same experience here. S3 is essentially a key/value store to simply put and retrieve large values/blobs. Everything resembling filesystem features is just convention over how keys are named. Comminication uses HTTP, so there is a lot of overhead when working with it as an FS.

In the web you can use these properties to your advantage: you can talk to S3 with simple HTTP clients, you can use reverse proxies, you can put a CDN in front and have a static file server.

But FS utils are almost always optimized for instant block based access and fast metadata responses. Something simple like a find will fuck you over with S3.