FSx for Windows

Core service for support of Windows file server shares - think managed NAS for windows which can be integrated with Directory services or self-managed AD stored on SDD or HDD. FSx for Windows can be deployed multi-AZ or single AZ in a VPC and features on-demand and scheduled backups. Key features:

• VSS - user driven restores
• Use SMB or NTFS like all Windows sorts of things do
• Windows permissions
• Distributed file system (DFS) - scale out performance

FSx for Lustre

Managed POSIX file storage for HPC, generally running Linux. Has two different deployment types: scratch which is high-performance and not HA and persistent which is HA and self-healing but in a single AZ. Also has backup to S3 that is not enabled by default; manual or automatic with a 0-35 day retention.

When the file system is created it is possible to point it at a bucket and have the contents of that bucket lazy loaded from the bucket into the file system. Changes to the file system are NOT automatically sync’d back to the bucket; use the hsm_archive command do sync to a bucket.

Metadata is stored in Metadata Targets (MST) while data is stored in Object Storage Targets (OST) of 1.17 TiB. OST are stored in increments of 2.4 TiB. Scratch has a baseline transfer of 200 MB/s; Persistent can be configured to 50, 100 or 200 MB/s with bursts to 3.1K MB/s. Data is striped across OST, cached and accessed using an ENI.

FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Managed NetApp ONTAP is compatible with NFS, SMB and iSCI protocol so it pretty much works with everything. Storage resizes automatically, support compression & deduplication, with point in time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads); can be deployed multi-AZ or single AZ in a VPC

FSx for OpenZFS

For migration scenarios where NFS compatibility is important. Huge performance up to 1 million IOPS with <0.5ms latency with point in time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads); single AZ