Amazon FSx

Question 1

Launch 3rd party high-performance file systems on AWS

Answer 1

Amazon FSx

Question 2

fully managed Windows file system share drive

Answer 2

FSx for Windows

Question 3

Does FSx for Windows support SMB protocol & Windows NTFS?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Can FSx for Windows be mounted on Linux EC2 instances

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Does FSx for Windows supports Microsoft’s Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Type of parallel distributed file system, for large-scale computing

Answer 6

Lustre

Question 7

Used for Machine Learning, High Performance Computing (HPC)

Answer 7

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Question 8

Used for Video Processing, Financial Modeling, Electronic Design Automation

Answer 8

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Question 9

Seamless integration with S3 that can be used from on-premises servers

Answer 9

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Question 10

FSx Lustre Scratch File System vs Persistent 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

Answer 10

Scratch File System

Question 11

FSx Lustre Scratch File System vs Persistent File System

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

Answer 11

Persistent File System

Question 12

Managed NetApp ONTAP on AWS that is compatible with NFS, SMB, iSCSI protocol

Answer 12

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Question 13

Move workloads running on ONTAP or NAS to AWS with Point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads)

Answer 13

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Question 14

Managed OpenZFS file system on AWS compatible with NFS (v3, v4, v4.1, v4.2)

Answer 14

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Question 15

FSx with up to 1,000,000 IOPS with < 0.5ms latency

Answer 15

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS