We need to mount an amazon S3 share on windows as well as Solaris servers.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
where is your problem?
What is an "Amazon S3 share"? Does it natively share files using SMB or NFS, does it have a host operating system?
The Amazon AWS service for this is called EBS, Elastic Block Storage and you can only mount EBS volumes on an AWS EBS instance. You cannot "mount" S3, or at least you should not (but some have tried via some strange configuration, but S3 is not reliable.)
No, S3 is not a reliable, mountable filesystem.
EBS is the mountable AWS service, and that is only mountable by an EC2 instance:
As far as S3 is concerned:
Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Here is a way to mount S3 on (Open)Solaris:
Mounting Amazon S3 buckets as a file system on OpenSolaris : Angelo's Soapbox
Yes, it can be kludged (anything can be kludged), but it is not reliable and is not supported by Amazon AWS in this configuration.
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BTW, if you do opt to use the s3fs, you cannot use ACLs or normal permissions in the filesystem:
Limitations
Edit:
Note that there are people who claim to use the s3fs in production, so there seems to be some progress since I last looked into this.