https://mxlit.com/technologies/aws-s3/Recent content in AWS S3 on Mexicali ITHugoen-usSun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:00 -0700https://mxlit.com/kb-00086/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:00 -0700https://mxlit.com/kb-00086/<p>As data volumes continue to grow explosively, a significant percentage inevitably becomes &ldquo;cold data&rdquo;—historical files that are rarely accessed. Keeping this inactive data sitting on high-performance primary storage is extremely cost-inefficient.</p> <p>To solve this, OneFS integrates <strong>CloudPools</strong>, a powerful tiering feature that allows you to seamlessly move inactive data blocks to an external object storage platform like Amazon S3, Azure Blob, or a local ECS. When data is tiered, OneFS leaves behind a reference file (a SmartLink, or <em>stub</em>) on the local file system. To end-users connected via SMB or NFS, the file still appears in its original location as normal; however, when they try to open it, the cluster retrieves the payload from the cloud transparently.</p>