Screaming In The Cloud

Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs need hard drives, but cloud storage doesn't work like hard drives—a problem that's existed for 20 years.Now Hunter's building Archil, which puts super-fast storage between programs and S3 so they can finally work together. Your programs think they're talking to a regular disk while your data lives safely in the cloud.Hunter explains how they're doing what others couldn't, why it costs less than Amazon's own solutions, and why file systems suddenly matter again in the AI era.Show Highlights:(01:37) What Archil Does and Why It Exists(02:26) Why Mounting S3 as a File System Has Always Failed(03:07) What Building EFS Taught Hunter(06:55) Using Fast SSDs as a Cache Layer for S3(09:45) Attaching Archil to Your Existing S3 Buckets(15:08) Why Archil Costs Less Than EBS When You Do the Math(17:56) What Happens If Amazon Builds This Feature(19:2