What is Amazon FSx?

• Launch 3rd party high peformance FileSystems on AWS. - Note that unlike EFS, Amazon does not own this FileSystem. - It is a fully managed service.

What is Amazon FSx for Windows File Server?

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities.

• It is a fully managed, highly reliable & scalable Windows-native shared file system.
• Built on Windows File Server
• Supports SMB (samba) Protocols & Windows NTFS (New Technology File System) [which basic FSx doesn’t]
• Integrates with Microsoft’s Active Directory! [which basic FSx doesn’t]
• your on-premise infrastructure file system can be accessed via this service, on AWS Cloud!!

What is Amazon FSx for Lustre?

• Linux + Cluster => Lustre
• A fully managed, high peformance, scalable, file system, for High Peformance Computing (HPC).
• Scales upto 100s of GB/s, million IOPS and sub-microsecond latencies!

• Usages
  Machine Learning
  Analytics
  Video Processing
  financial Modelling