# Mountpoint for Amazon S3

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
With Mountpoint for Amazon S3, your applications can access objects stored in Amazon S3 through file operations like `open` and `read`.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 automatically translates these operations into S3 object API calls, giving your applications access to the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3 through a file interface.

This crate is currently a placeholder.

To get started with Mountpoint for Amazon S3, visit [awslabs/mountpoint-s3 on GitHub](https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3).