Amazon FsX for Windows File Server
TL;DR
- fully managed windows FS share drive
- highly reliable
- SMB protocol & Windows NTFS
- Scale up to 10s of GB/s, millions of IOPS, 100s PB of data.
- AD Integration, access control lists (ACLs), user quotas
- can be mounted on Linux EC2 instances.
- Supports Microsoft distributed FS (DFS)
- Namespaces (group files across multiple FS)
- Can be configured to be Multi-AZ (HA)
- Data is backed-up daily to S3.
- Can be accessed from your on-premises infrastructure:
Longer Version
- Fully managed native Windows file servers/shares
- designed for integration with Windows environments.
- Native Windows file system, not emulated server
- Integrates with Directory Service or Self-Managed AD
- Can be used in Single or Multi-AZ within a docs/networks/VPC.
- This controls the network interfaces that are available.
- Single mode use replication in the AZ to ensure resiliency.
- Can perform full range of different backups
- Client side and AWS side
- Can perform automatic and on-demand backups.
- File systems can be access using:
Words to look for
- VSS: User Driven Restores
- Native File System (NFS) accessible over SMB
- Windows permissions model
- Product supports Distribute File Systems (DFS), scale out file share.
- Managed service, no file server admin
- Integrates with DS and your own directory.