AWS Service

FSx

Overview
- Launch 3rd party high-performance file systems on AWS
- Fully managed service
  - FSx for Lustre
  - FSx for Windows File Server
  - FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  - FSx for OpenZFS
Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)
- FSx for Windows is a fully managed Windows file system share drive
- Supports SMB protocol & Windows NTFS
- Microsoft Active Directory integration, ACLs, user quotas
- Can be mounted on Linux EC2 instances
- Supports Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces (group files across multiple FS)
- Scale up to 10s of GB/s, millions of IOPS, 100s PB of data
- Storage Options
  - SSD - latency sensitive workloads ((databases, media processing, data analytics, etc)
  - HDD - broad spectrum of workloads (home directory, CMS, etc)
- Can be accessed from your on-premises infrastructure (VPN or Direct Connect)
- Can be configured to be Multi-AZ (high availability)
- Data is backed-up daily to S3
Amazon FSx for Lustre
- Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, for large-scale computing
- The name Lustre is derived from Linux and cluster
- Use case:
  - Machine Learning, High Performance Computing (HPC)
  - Video Processing, Financial Modeling, Electronic Design Automation
- Scales up to 100s GB/s, millions of IOPS, sub ms latencies
- Storage Options
  - SSD - low-latency, IOPS intensive workloads, small & random file operations
  - HDD - throughput-intensive workloads, large & sequential file operations
- Seamless integration with S3
  - Can “read S3” as a file system (through FSx)
  - Can write the output of the computations back to S3 (through FSx)
- Can be used from on-premises servers (VPN or Direct Connect)
- File System Deployment Options
  - Scratch File System
    - Temporary storage
    - Data is not replicated (doesn’t persist if file server fails)
    - High burst (6x faster, 200MBps per TiB)
    - Usage: short-term processing, optimize cost

Persistent File System
- Long-term storage
- Data is replicated within same AZ
- Replace failed files within minutes
- Usage: long-term processing, sensitive data

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- Managed NetApp ONTAP on AWS
- File System compatible with NFS, SMB, iSCSI protocol
- Move workloads running on ONTAP or NAS to AWS
- Works with:
  - Linux, Windows, MacOS
  - VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon Workspaces & AppStream 2.0
  - Amazon EC2, ECS and EKS
- Storage shrinks or grows automatically
- Snapshots, replication, low-cost, compression and data de-duplication
- Point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workload)

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
- Managed OpenZFS file system on AWS
- File System compatible with NFS (v3, v4, v4.1, v4.2)
- Move workloads running on ZFS to AWS
- Works with:
  - Linux, Windows, MacOS
  - VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon Workspaces & AppStream 2.0
  - Amazon EC2, ECS and EKS
- Up to 1,000,000 IOPS with < 0.5ms latency
- Snapshots, compression and low-cost
- Point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workload)