CloudFuse

CloudFuse is a file system that allows you to mount cloud storage services like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage as a local file system on your Linux machine. This means you can interact with your cloud storage using standard file system operations like reading, writing, and listing files, as if they were on a local hard drive. CloudFuse is built on FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), a framework that enables the creation of file systems that run in user space rather than the kernel. This approach simplifies development and makes it easier to integrate with various cloud providers. When you access a file through a CloudFuse mount point, CloudFuse translates these operations into API calls to the underlying cloud storage service. For example, a read operation on a file will result in CloudFuse making an API call to download the file's content from the cloud. Similarly, writing to a file will trigger an upload operation. This provides a convenient way to work with large datasets stored in the cloud without needing to download them entirely or use specialized command-line tools for every operation. It can be particularly useful for applications that are designed to work with local file systems but need to leverage the scalability and cost-effectiveness of cloud storage.