Introduction

People who work regularly with files stored in Amazon S3 on a Mac often have difficulty managing them. Whenever you want to upload, download, or edit a file, you have to open the AWS console or use terminal commands.

Because the S3 bucket does not appear in Finder as a USB drive. Mac does not support this feature because S3 uses cloud object storage with its own API instead of a traditional file system.

While Finder supports local disks and network file systems.That’s why they need additional software to connect them. Moreover, Amazon S3 also does not have an option to edit files within it. You have to upload it every time after making changes.

In this guide, we will explore how to mount an S3 bucket as a drive on macOS on a personal Mac or EC2 Mac instance.

Why doesn't S3 behave like a normal disk?

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