Introduction

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, …)
- HDD – broad spectrum of workloads (home directory, CMS, …)
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

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, for large-scale computing
The name Lustre is derived from “Linux” and “cluster
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)

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