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Affordable and Fast: S3 is Now the Best Place to Process your FFmpeg Data

Affordable and Fast: S3 is Now the Best Place to Process your FFmpeg Data

Most companies that use FFmpeg and store their data in object storage (such as S3, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-premises solutions like MinIO) stage their data to a filesystem, then run FFmpeg on it there, and finally upload the result back into object storage. This is because FFmpeg requires POSIX file access, and existing POSIX …

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How to Mount an Amazon S3 Bucket as a Local Drive using cunoFS

With cunoFS, you can mount S3 buckets and access objects inside them as files. This makes it possible to use almost any application with S3 storage, including custom software and machine learning tools like PyTorch, media tools like FFmpeg, and high-performance computing workloads. cunoFS has faster performance than every competing solution to mounting S3-compatible object …

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Making the Right Choice: Comparing the Cost/Performance of Different EFS Options and Alternatives

When choosing the EFS (Elastic File System) configuration options for your enterprise cloud storage, the choices can be overwhelming. Practical information can be hard to find, so we’ve assembled all of the relevant facts in one place, along with additional information that will help you pick the right mix of price and performance for your …

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Optimizing PyTorch Machine Learning Cost and Performance Using cunoFS

Optimizing PyTorch Machine Learning Cost and Performance Using cunoFS

Performance and cost are important considerations when designing and implementing machine learning (ML) systems at scale. The speed and efficiency with which you can train your ML models and extract the maximum value from your data will determine the overall success of your project. Data loading is one of the biggest performance factors in the …

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Is POSIX Outdated in the Cloud Era?

POSIX — the Portable Operating System Interface — is the standard API used by UNIX and conforming non-UNIX (including Windows) operating systems to maintain compatibility with each other. The POSIX standard allows applications written for one operating system to work on others with minimal-to-no reworking depending on the other APIs required, greatly reducing the complexity …

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cunoFS is a High Performance POSIX Layer for Object Storage

Implementing cost-effective, scalable storage has traditionally presented problems to developers. While object storage is cheap and scalable, it requires that existing tools be adapted to work with cloud providers' APIs rather than the filesystem.  Historically, tools that bridge the gaps between object storage and POSIX environments have suffered limitations — particularly poor performance, scalability, or the …

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