JuiceFS Office Hours #8: Comparing JuiceFS with Cloud Providers and Independent Storage Solutions for AI Workloads

​We’ll compare JuiceFS with major hyperscaler file storage and high-performance file storage offerings across AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI, and also discuss common third-party approaches such as Alluxio and CephFS. The focus won’t be on product marketing or deep feature lists, but on practical trade-offs around capabilities, total cost of ownership, operational complexity, reliability, and multi-cloud support.

​We’ll also include a few lightweight lessons learned from “AI-adjacent” domains—spanning GenAI, agentic workflows, quant, autonomous driving, embodied intelligence, and biotech—to illustrate how different requirements shape storage decisions.

​Join us for the talk and a live Q&A—bring your workload, scale expectations, and priorities (performance vs. cost vs. operational simplicity).

​17:00 – 17:25 | File Systems for AI: Key Comparisons and Trade-offs

​​Speaker: Rui Su, Co-founder of Juicedata

​17:25 – 17:45 | Live Q&A – Ask the JuiceFS Team Anything


JuiceFS  Office Hours

​​​​​​​The JuiceFS Office Hours is a recurring online event held on the fourth Thursday of each month. It serves as a dedicated platform for JuiceFS users and community members to:

• ​​​​​​​​Share our practices and community experiences in the AI field

• ​​​​​​​​Receive immediate responses to their questions from the JuiceFS team

• ​​​​​​​​Learn about the latest product updates and feature releases

​​​​​​​About JuiceFS
JuiceFS is an open-source, high-performance distributed file system for the cloud. With full POSIX compatibility, it turns object storage into massive local disks across platforms and regions, and is widely used in AI applications like autonomous driving, generative AI, quant research, and biotech.