wouldn't it be great if you could just go to the s3 console and run unix tools on what's in your bucket? now you can. today, @archildata is launching Shells, a one-click, ephemeral Linux machine attached to your S3 bucket so you can run vim, less, and grep right on your data.

Oct 27, 2025 · 4:46 PM UTC

you can try Archil Shells today for disks created in the aws-us-west-2 region by going to disk.new
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the future is now, corey
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Replying to @jhleath @archildata
Maybe DuckDB also?
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You can run *anything* including DuckDB, SQLite, and even straight Postgres
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Replying to @jhleath @archildata
Cool idea. But Is this more cost effective than me downloading the files, doing a bunch of stuff and uploading it back?
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it sure is! it's *significantly* lower cost than downloading to a disk, because we only charge you for the data that you're actively using (as opposed to spending money on "provisioned" space you don't use)