FSx

  • Managed File system for third party filesystems, Liks RDS
    • FSx Lustre
    • FSx Windows file server
    • FSx OpenZFS
    • FSx NetApp Ontab

FSx for Windows File server

  • Supports SMB protocol, and Windows NTFS
  • Integration with AD
  • Can also be mounted in ec2 instances
  • Scale up to 10s of gbps, millions of IOPS and 100s pb of data
  • Supports Microsoft’s DFS, group files across mulitple FS
  • Data backed up to s3 daily

FSx Lustre

  • Used for large scale computing
  • Lustre = Linux + Cluster
  • Machine Learning, HPC
  • Storage
    • ssd - Low latency IOPS intensive
    • hdd - Thoroughput
  • Integrated with s3, read through adn write to s3

Both can be accessed from on prem, s2s, dc

Fsx for NetApp onTap

  • Compatible with NFS, SMB, iSCSI protocol
  • move from NAS, Ontap to AWS
  • Windows, linux, MacOS, worksapces & appstream, VMWare cloud on AWS, Ec2, eks and ecs
  • Shirk or grow automatically Point it time cloning, for testing workloads

FSx for OpenZFS

  • Managed openZFS
  • Only with NFS
  • Move workloads to AWS
  • Compatible, linux mac windows

FSx for Sysops

Single AZ vs Multi AZ