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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 vs JuiceFS: catalog facts
Mountpoint for Amazon S3	JuiceFS
Free Free and open source; normal Amazon S3 storage and request charges apply.	Freemium Community Edition is free and open source; the Cloud Service and Enterprise Edition are…
Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Exposes S3 buckets as a local directory Lets existing file-based tools work with S3 data	Presents object storage as a normal POSIX file system Keeps metadata separate from data for faster metadata operations
Tied to Amazon S3 Requires an AWS account and incurs S3 charges	Needs both an object store and a metadata database to run Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than desktop users
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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