- Provides fully manged windows file system on AWS
- Operates as shared file storage
- Supports:
- SMB
- Windows NTFS
- Active Directory(AD) integration
- Distributed File System(DFS)
- Uses SSD Storage for enhanced performance.
- Data Deduplication (Not available in Lustre)
- Fully managed file system designed for compute-intensive workloads (Machine learning, HPC)
- Ability to process massive data sets
- Performance can run up to hundreds of GB/s and massive IOPs
- Integration with Amazon S3
- Support cloud-bursting workloads from on-premises over Direct Connect and VPN connections
- Pay for the amount of data you use/month as well as throughput
- priced at gigabyte-months.
- pricing varies based on single or multi-az deployment
- There is a cost to transfer data between AZ, which is why multi-az config costs more.
- Incremental backusp are automatically performed on your FSx
- Backup costs are based on gigabyte-months as well.
