FSx

EFS ⇒ linux ; FSx ⇒ window

• For windows file server

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  • provides a fully managed native windows file server
  • designed for integration with windows env (and window permission model**)**
  • integrates with directory service/ self-managed AD
  • single or multi-AZ within a VPC
  • VSS - file/ folder level restore from previous version (user-driven)
  • support Distributed file system (DFS) - scale-out file share structure
  • allows on-demand/ scheduled backups
  • accessible using VPC, peering, VPC, direct Connect
  • share via SMB protocol

• For Lustre

  💡 **Lustre** is a type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing for Linux, which designed for HPC

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  • support Linux and POXIS style permission

  • for ML, big data, financial modelling

  • accessible over VPN or Direct connect

  • S3 as file repository from which file is lazy loaded into FSX when needed

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  • can backup back to S3

  • Two deployment type

    • Scratch
      • highly optimised for short term workloads
      • for pure performance w/o replication/ any HA
      • larger file system = more change of failure
    • Persistent:
      • longer term
      • replication within 1 AZ, self-healing