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FSx

Created By: Keishin CHOU Last Edited: Apr 22, 2020 12:04 PM

Amazon FSx for Windows (File Server)

  • Fully managed Windows file system share drive that runs Windows Server Message Block (SMB) - based file servers.
  • Supports SMB protocol & Windows NTFS.
  • Designed for Windows and Windows applications.

Windows FSx vs EFS

  • EFS
    • EFS if for Linux server only.
    • A managed NAS filer for EC2 instances based on Network File System (NFS) version 4.
    • One of the first sharing protocols native to Unix and Linux.

Amazon FSx for Lustre

  • Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, for large-scale computing.
  • 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
  • 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-premise servers

EFS vs FSx for Windows vs FSx for Lustre

  • EFS
    • When you need distributed, highly resilient storage for Linux instances and Linux-based applications.
  • FSx for Windows
    • When you need to centralized storage for Windows-based applications such as Sharepoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Workspaces, IIS Web Server or any other native Microsoft applications.
  • FSx for Lustre
    • When you need high-speed, high-capacity distributed storage. This will be for applications that do High Performance Compute (HPC), financial modeling etc.
    • FSx for Lustre can store data directly on S3.