Amazon FSx

Amazon FSx for Windows

EFS is a shared POSIX file system for Linux, meaning it can not be used with Windows
FSx for Windows is a fully managed Windows file system share drive
Supports SMB protocol and Windows NTFS
It has Active Directory integration, ACLs and user quotas
It is built on top of SSD, it can scale up to 10s of GB/s, millions of IOPS and 100s PB of data
It can accessed from on-premise infrastructure
It can be configured to be Multi-AZ (high availability)
Data is backed-up daily to S3

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system for large-scale computing
Lustre is derived from “Linux” and “cluster”
FSx for Lustre is used with machine learning and High Performance Computing (HPC), example: video processing, financial modelling, electronic design automation
Scales up to 100s GB/s, millions of IOPS, sub-ms latencies
It has seamless integration with S3
- Can “read” S3 as a file system
- Can write the output of the computations back to S3
It can be used with on-premise servers