

The file servers are highly available, and data is automatically replicated within the Amazon Web Services Availability Zone (AZ) that is associated with the file system. Persistent file systems are designed for longer-term storage and workloads.

Data is not replicated and does not persist if a file server fails. Scratch file systems are designed for temporary storage and shorter-term processing of data. Q: What is the difference between scratch and persistent deployment options?Ī: Amazon FSx for Lustre provides two deployment options: scratch and persistent. If you link your filesystem to an S3 data lake, your objects will appear as files and directories as soon as your file system is available. Within minutes, your file system is running and accessible to your compute instances. Q: How do I create a file system with Amazon FSx for Lustre?Ī: Creating an Amazon FSx for Lustre file system from the Console, CLI, or API is a simple process.

Once you have created an Amazon Web Services account, you can create a file system via the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), and Amazon FSx API (and various language-specific SDKs). Q: How do I get started with Amazon FSx for Lustre?Ī: To use Amazon FSx for Lustre, you must have an Amazon Web Services account. Q: What use cases does Amazon FSx for Lustre support?Ī: Use Amazon FSx for Lustre for workloads where speed matters, such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, genome sequencing, and electronic design automation (EDA). When linked to an S3 bucket, an FSx for Lustre file system transparently presents S3 objects as files and allows you to write changed data back to S3. It also provides multiple deployment options so you can optimize cost for your needs.Īmazon FSx also integrates with Amazon S3, making it easy for you to process cloud data sets with the Lustre high-performance file system. Amazon FSx eliminates the traditional complexity of setting up and managing high-performance Lustre file systems, allowing you in minutes to spin up, run, and scale a battle-tested high-performance file system. Lustre was built to solve the problem of quickly and cheaply processing the world’s ever-growing data sets, and it’s the most widely used file system for the 500 fastest computers in the world.Īs a fully managed service, Amazon FSx brings Lustre to the masses, allowing you to use it for any workload where storage speed matters. The open source Lustre file system is designed for applications that require fast storage – where you want your storage to keep up with your compute. A: Amazon FSx for Lustre makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale the world’s most popular high-performance file system.
