Summary
Archil transforms S3 buckets into a high-performance file system that's 30x faster than accessing S3 directly and 90% cheaper than EBS. Founded by Hunter Leath, who spent 9 years building cloud storage products at AWS and Netflix, they solve the problem of AI and analytics teams constantly moving data between S3 and local file systems. Archil provides instant access to petabyte-scale data sets without waiting for downloads, automatically scales capacity, and only charges for actively used data. It's fully POSIX-compatible, requiring no code changes to work with existing applications.