Amazon FSx
Launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems with just a few clicks
Amazon FSx makes it easy and cost effective to launch and run popular file systems that are fully managed by Amazon Web Services Cloud. With Amazon FSx, you can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. It provides cost-efficient capacity with high levels of reliability, and integrates with a broad portfolio of Amazon Web Services services to enable faster innovation.
Amazon FSx provides two file systems to choose from: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server for business applications and Amazon FSx for Lustre for compute-intensive workloads.
Amazon FSx file systems
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Built on Windows Server, Amazon FSx delivers a wide range of administrative features such as data deduplication, end-user file restore, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. It offers single-AZ and multi-AZ deployment options, fully managed backups, and encryption of data at rest and in transit. With the HDD storage option, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server offers the lowest-cost file storage in the cloud for Windows applications and workloads. You can access Amazon FSx from Windows, Linux, or MacOS compute instances and devices running on Amazon Web Services Cloud or on premises. You can optimize cost and performance with multiple storage options, and you can grow your file system storage and scale your performance at any time.
Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed service that provides cost-effective high-performance storage for compute workloads. Many workloads such as machine learning, high-performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial simulations depend on compute instances accessing the same set of data through high-performance shared storage. Powered by Lustre, the popular high-performance file system, FSx for Lustre offers shared storage with low latencies, up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, and millions of IOPS. FSx for Lustre offers multiple deployment types, storage types, and throughput performance levels to optimize cost and performance for your workload requirements. FSx for Lustre file systems can also be linked to Amazon S3 buckets, allowing you to access and process data concurrently from both a high-performance file system and from the S3 API.
Benefits
Cost-effective
With Amazon FSx, you can spin up and spin down file systems on-demand. Amazon FSx offers a range of Solid-State Disk (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage options enabling you to optimize storage price and performance for your workload requirements. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server offers data deduplication to optimize costs by removing redundant data. With FSx for Lustre, you can choose unreplicated, scratch file systems to further lower costs for shorter-term processing of data and data compression to reduce storage consumption of both your file system storage and your file system backups.
Fast and flexible performance
Amazon FSx supports higly demanding enterprise applications and high-performance workloads. Amazon FSx is designed to deliver fast, predictable, scalable, and consistent performance. Amazon FSx file systems deliver sustained high read and write speeds and consistent low latency data access. You can also choose the storage type and throughput level to best match your business needs.
Available and durable
Amazon FSx runs on the same highly reliable infrastructure used by other Amazon Web Services services, and it offers a variety of deployment options to match your workload’s availability and durability requirements. With FSx for Windows File Server, you can choose from single-AZ or multi-AZ deployment types, depending on your applications needs. With FSx for Lustre, you can choose from scratch or persistent storage for short-term or long-term data processing.
Simple and fully managed
In minutes and with a few clicks, you can launch a fully managed, highly reliable file system. With Amazon FSx file systems, you don't have to worry about managing file servers and storage volumes, updating hardware, configuring software, or performing backups -- Amazon FSx automates these time-consuming administration tasks.
Integrated with Amazon Web Services services
Amazon FSx file systems integrate with other Amazon Web Services services, including Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudTrail, Amazon KMS, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Batch, and Amazon ParallelCluster. Using Amazon FSx with these services allows you to more easily develop, deploy, and run your workloads.
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Use cases
Migrate your workloads to the cloud
Many organizations rely on the file system features and administrative tooling provided by their existing, on-premises storage technologies. By offering the same like-for-like capabilities and performance, Amazon FSx makes it easy to adopt the agility and scalability of cloud storage for file shares, database, and application workloads without modifying your application code or how you manage your data.
Increase development and test agility
By combining infrastructure-as-code, flexible compute bursting, and Amazon FSx storage, you can quickly spin up development and test environments on demand and rapidly iterate to shorten release cycles. You can also replicate your configuration and resources with cost-efficient, zero-capacity clones - making it faster and easier to develop and test new applications.
Build bleeding-edge machine learning, analytics, and HPC application
Many machine learning, analytics, and HPC applications require highly performant and scalable file storage to support large clusters of compute resources and huge volumes of data. Depending on the file system you choose, Amazon FSx provides a range of cost-effective deployment options that can deliver millions of IOPS with sub-millisecond to ensure that storage never becomes bottleneck for these demanding workloads.
Accelerate Media & Entertainment workloads
Media & Entertainment workloads require high-performance storage that is broadly accessible by end users who create and edit media from a variety of operating systems and by compute-intensive rendering and transcoding jobs. Amazon FSx storage offers the scalability to deliver your media projects on time and within budget and the flexibility to connect from your Linux, Windows, and macOS environments.
Simplify business continuity
Managing backups and long-term data retention on premises can be complex, time consuming, and costly. Amazon FSx lets you easily and securely backup, archive, or replicate your on-premises file storage to Amazon Web Services in order to meet regulatory, data retention, or disaster recovery requirements.
