#aws

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Object Mount includes its own CSI driver for Kubernetes, allowing you to use AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure storage seamlessly within your Kubernetes clusters.

Object Mount was originally developed to deliver high-throughput, POSIX-compatible filesystem access to object storage for high-performance workloads in the genomics industry. It has since evolved into a full Mountpoint alternative that can mount AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure Blob Storage as a filesystem in virtually any Linux environment.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Friday, October 31, 2025

A $9.5B return on an $8B investment in less than a year. Not bad! How does "main street" get in on investments like that?!

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in Amazon’s non-operating income for the quarter...

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business — historically Amazon’s primary profit engine — generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits...

Amazon has invested and committed a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes.

Thursday, October 30, 2025