Amazon has introduced automatic mounting of S3 buckets on EC2 instances using fstab and Mountpoint for Amazon S3.
Previously, manual remounting of S3 buckets after every reboot was required, but now with fstab integration, automatic mounting is possible.
The step-by-step process involves creating a mount directory, testing manual mount, adding an entry to /etc/fstab, and testing the setup.
This enhancement simplifies infrastructure management, providing persistent S3 access, better automation and scripting options, and usefulness for containers, EC2 fleets, and bootstrapping.