Architecture Layers That S3 Files Eliminates —...

On April 7, 2026, AWS made Amazon S3 Files generally available. It lets you mount S3 buckets as NFS v4.1/v4.2 file systems from EC2, EKS, ECS, and Lambda. Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems | AWS News Blog aws.amazon.com There are already plenty of setup guides and first-look posts. This article focuses on something different: what becomes unnecessary and what becomes possible in your architecture. If you use S3 regularly and are wondering "this sounds big, but how