Mounting an Amazon S3 bucket using S3FS is a simple process: by following the steps below, you should be able to start experimenting with using Amazon S3 as a drive on your computer immediately. Step 1: Installation To set up S3FS-FUSE on a Mac is to install it via 'HomeBrew' and on Ubuntu it can be installed by using the command sudo apt-get install s3fs Step 2: Configuration Once S3FS is installed, set up the credentials echo ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY > ~/.passwd-s3fs
cat ~/ .passwd-s3fs ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY You will also need to set the right access permission for the passwd-s3fs file to run S3FS successfully : chmod 600 .passwd-s3fs