Section 16: AWS Storage Extras

Question 1

What is FSx for windows??

Answer 1

• fully managed windows file system share drive
• Supports SMB protocol and NTFS
• Active directory integration, ACLs, user quotas
• can be mounted on to Linux EC2

Question 2

What are the storage options for FSx ? and what user case.

Answer 2

• SSD - latency sensitive

HDD - broad spectrum

Question 3

Where can FSx be accessed?

Answer 3

on prem infra (VPN or Direct Connect)

Question 4

Can FSx be configured to be Multi-AZ?

Answer 4

YES

Question 5

What is FSx for Lustre?

Answer 5

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system for large-scale computing

Question 6

What would you use FSx for Lustre for?

Answer 6

Machine learning

HIgh performance Computing (HPC)

Question 7

Can you integrate FSx For lustre with S3 bucket?

Answer 7

Yes can read S3 as file system and write the output of computations back to S3

Question 8

What are the FSx File System Deployment Options? and what are the use cases?

Answer 8

Scratch File System
• Temporary storage
• Data is not replicated (doesn’t persist if file
server fails)
• 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