How to mount Amazon S3 Storage inside a Linux machine

Creating IAM user

• Login to the IAM console:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/

• From the left pane, click on Users -> click on “Add user” -> specify the user name -> access type: “Programmatic access” -> do not select “AWS Management Console access” -> click “Next: Permissions”
• From the “add user to group”, click on “Create group” -> from the policy list, select “AmazonS3FullAccess” -> click “Next: Review” -> click on “Create user”
• Download the CSV file with the “Access key ID” and “Secret access key” and save the CSV file in a secure location
• Click Close

S3FS installation

• Login using SSH to the target Linux machine using privileged account.
• Follow the instructions below to install the S3FS Fuse adapter:

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/wiki/Installation-Notes

• Run the command sudo vi /etc/passwd-s3fs to create config file with the following content:

bucketName:accessKeyId:secretAccessKey

Note 1: Replace bucketName, with the target bucket name

Note 2: Replace accessKeyId, with the relevant value from the credentials created on the IAM console

Note 3: Replace secretAccessKey, with the relevant value from the credentials created on the IAM console

• Change the permissions of the passwd-s3fs file (Amazon Linux):

sudo chown ec2-user:ec2-user /etc/passwd-s3fs

sudo chmod 600 /etc/passwd-s3fs

• Change the permissions of the passwd-s3fs file (Ubuntu):

sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/passwd-s3fs

sudo chmod 600 /etc/passwd-s3fs

Mount phase

• Run the commands below to mount the Amazon S3 storage (Amazon Linux):

sudo mkdir -p /dev/cloudstorage

sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user /dev/cloudstorage/

sudo chmod 777 /dev/cloudstorage

/usr/bin/s3fs MyBucket /dev/cloudstorage -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs

Note: Replace MyBucket, with the target bucket name

• Run the commands below to mount the Amazon S3 storage (Ubuntu):

sudo mkdir -p /dev/cloudstorage

sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /dev/cloudstorage/

sudo chmod 777 /dev/cloudstorage

/usr/bin/s3fs MyBucket /dev/cloudstorage -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs

Note: Replace MyBucket, with the target bucket name

• To view the content of the Amazon S3 bucket, switch to the new mount point:

cd /dev/cloudstorage

Unmount phase

• en completing the work on the bucket, from the Linux SSH console, and run the commands below to unmount the Amazon S3 Storage:

cd ~

sudo fusermount -u /dev/cloudstorage

• Logoff the Linux machine

Additional references regarding permanent mount using FSTAB

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/wiki/Fuse-Over-Amazon

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-s3fs/