[manigandham]

Object storage is a higher-level abstraction than block-storage. FUSE and similar tech can do the job for basic requirements like read-only access by legacy applications but rarely works well for other scenarios.

A more complex layer like https://objectivefs.com/ (based on the S3 API) would be more useful, although I would've expected the cloud providers to scale their own block-store/SANs backed with object-stores by now.