Mounting S3 in Ubuntu

Getting the s3 storage mechanism can be easily integrated into your local linux file system using the s3fs project.

Install the s3fs package as usual:

sudo apt-get install s3fs

Configure authentication using a home-folder credential file called .passwd-s3fs. This file expects data in the format of IDENTITY:CREDENTIAL. You can easily create one of these with the following:

echo MYIDENTITY:MYCREDENTIAL >  ~/.passwd-s3fs
chmod 600  ~/.passwd-s3fs

Finally, mount your S3 bucket into the local file system:

s3fs your-bucket-name /your/local/folder -o passwd_file=/home/michael/.passwd-s3fs

That’t it. You can now use S3 data, just as you would local data on your system.