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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds memory usage controls

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now allows users to limit memory usage automatically or with a user-defined cap, enabling coexistence with memory-intensive applications

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 introduces memory usage controls, allowing users to set limits either automatically based on the environment or manually. This enables Mountpoint to run alongside memory-intensive applications, such as machine learning training or analytics workloads that share a memory budget. Previously, Mountpoint's memory usage could grow over time based on usage patterns, potentially causing performance or stability issues when competing with other memory-intensive applications. With this update, users can define a memory target for Mountpoint to reserve memory for their applications, or Mountpoint can automatically determine a safe default based on the environment. For example, in Amazon EKS, Mountpoint can detect a container's assigned memory budget and slow down operations under memory pressure to stay within that budget. Mountpoint is available in all AWS Regions; visit the Mountpoint GitHub repository to upgrade to the latest version.

Why it matters

This update benefits users who need to run Mountpoint in memory-constrained environments or those handling memory-intensive workloads like machine learning and analytics

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