Google Cloud → AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure equivalents of Cloud Storage FUSE
The closest AWS equivalents of Google Cloud Cloud Storage FUSE are Amazon S3 Files and Mountpoint for Amazon S3; on Azure, NFS 3.0 protocol support for Blob Storage and BlobFuse2.
About Cloud Storage FUSE
| Provider | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Mounts Cloud Storage buckets as a local file system on VMs and GKE, with caching options. Not a POSIX file system. |
| Documentation | docs.cloud.google.com |
| Pricing | No separate pricing page |
Mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS | Match (GCP vs AWS) | Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount object storage as a file system | Amazon S3 Files, Mountpoint for Amazon S3 | Partial match | NFS 3.0 protocol support for Blob Storage, BlobFuse2 |
Mount object storage as a file system Partial match
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 maps to Cloud Storage FUSE, which mounts buckets as a local file system on VMs and GKE. There is no managed NFS front end like S3 Files.
- Google states Cloud Storage FUSE is not a POSIX file system and behaves differently from NFS or SMB.
- For a real shared file system over the same data, use Filestore or Managed Lustre with import and export.