Amazon FSx
With just a few clicks, Amazon FSx can launch, operate, and grow feature-rich, highly-performing file systems.
What is Amazon FSx?
Launching, operating, and scaling feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud is made simple and affordable with Amazon FSx. Because of its vast range of capabilities, scalability, security, and dependability, it can handle a variety of workloads. The newest AWS computing, networking, and storage technologies form the foundation of Amazon FSx, which offers superior performance and reduced TCO. Additionally, it manages hardware provisioning, patching, and backups as a fully managed service, giving you more time to concentrate on your apps, end users, and company.
NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre are the four popular file systems that Amazon FSx allows you to select from. Your experience with a particular file system or your ability to match the feature sets, performance profiles, and data management capabilities of the file system to the demands of your workload are usually the basis for this decision.
Benefits
Fully featured and fully managed
Providing widely accessible and highly-performing file storage that supports a wide range of use cases is made simple by Amazon FSx. Applications and users running Linux, Windows, and macOS may connect to file systems with their support for industry-standard protocols. Additionally, Amazon FSx provides high throughput and sub-millisecond latency to satisfy the performance requirements of your most taxing applications. Amazon FSx makes it easier to transfer legacy apps and create rich new apps by fusing the power of popular file systems with the ease of use of a fully managed AWS service.
Highly available and protected
Amazon FSx continuously checks for hardware failures, automatically replaces infrastructure components or switches to a stand-by file server in the event of a failure, and replicates your data within or across AWS Availability Zones to protect it from component failure in order to guarantee high availability and durability. Amazon allows you to duplicate your file systems across AWS Regions to satisfy your data protection needs. It also connects with AWS Backup to provide centralized backup administration and extra compliance levels. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is used by Amazon FSx to automatically encrypt your data while it is at rest and to provide encryption of data while it is in transit for further protection.
Cost effective
From tiny user shares to the most demanding compute-intensive workloads, Amazon FSx enables you to optimize both pricing and performance to serve a wide range of use cases. You may provide and expand throughput speed independently of storage capacity using Amazon, which provides SSD or HDD storage choices. Depending on your needs for high availability, you can select between deployment options that are Single-AZ or Multi-AZ. A wide range of storage efficiency features, including as data deduplication, compression, and use quotas, are supported by Amazon FSx file systems.
Hybrid-enabled
Making better use of your data is simple with Amazon FSx. A wide range of connected AWS services may instantly access data that has been moved and synchronized from on-premises to AWS. By storing data in the cloud with low-latency local access made possible by Amazon FSx File Gateway and NetApp ONTAP’s Global File Cache, you can offer storage to users worldwide.
Use Cases
Migrate your workloads to the cloud
Many businesses rely on the administrative tools and file system functionality offered by their current on-premises storage technology. Without changing your application code or data management procedures, Amazon FSx makes it simple to embrace the agility and scalability of cloud storage for file sharing, database, and application workloads by matching capabilities and performance.
Build bleeding-edge machine learning, analytics, and HPC applications
High-performance and scalable file storage is necessary for many machine learning, analytics, and HPC applications in order to handle massive data volumes and clusters of computing power. To guarantee that storage never becomes a bottleneck for these demanding applications, Amazon FSx offers a variety of affordable deployment choices that may deliver millions of IOPS with sub-millisecond latency, depending on the file system you select.
Simplify business continuity
Long-term data retention on-site and backup management can be expensive, time-consuming, and complicated. To satisfy legal, data retention, or disaster recovery needs, you may quickly and safely backup, archive, or duplicate your on-premises file storage to Amazon Web services using Amazon FSx.
Increase development and test agility
Infrastructure-as-code, flexible compute bursting, and Amazon FSx storage enable rapid iteration to minimize release cycles and create development and test environments. Cost-effective, zero-capacity clones may also be used to duplicate your configuration and resources, which speeds up and simplifies the process of creating and testing new applications.
Accelerate Media & Entertainment workloads
Workloads in media and entertainment necessitate high-performance storage that is widely available to compute-intensive rendering and transcoding tasks as well as end users who produce and edit material from a range of operating systems. Amazon FSx storage gives you the freedom to connect from Linux, Windows, and macOS systems, as well as the scalability to complete your video projects on schedule and within your budget.
