‫Okay, so now let's talk about Amazon FSx,
‫which is a managed service to get third-party
‫high-performance file systems on AWS.
‫So in case you don't wanna use EFS or S3,
‫and you want something else, then you can use FSX
‫to manage these file systems.
‫So you have three offerings today.
‫You have FSx for Lustre, FSx for Windows File Server,
‫and FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
‫And they can add file systems over time
‫to the FSx service, I'm pretty sure,
‫but they will not update this video
‫unless you need to know about the other ones.
‫So the two most important ones are going to be
‫FSx for Lustre, and FSx for Windows File Server,
‫and this is what is covered in this lesson.
‫The first one is Amazon FSx for Windows File Server,
‫which is a fully managed, highly reliable and scalable
‫Windows native shared file system
‫built on Windows File Server.
‫So this is meant for Windows instances.
‫So the way you do it is that deploy the FSx
‫usually across two availability zones,
‫and then there is support
‫for all the Windows native protocols,
‫such as the SMB protocol and Windows NTFS,
‫which allows you to mount this file system
‫onto your Windows machines.
‫And so if you look at your corporate data center
‫and you have a Windows Client, for example,
‫over SMB, it's able to access the Windows file server.
‫But also if you had EC2 instances that are Windows based,
‫and then they could also might as well
‫access this Windows file server.
‫So Amazon FSx is the way to deploy this Windows file server
‫that leverages the SMB protocol and Windows NTFS.
‫Because this is also a Microsoft type of offering,
‫there is integration with Microsoft Active Directory
‫for user security and Windows file server in Amazon FSx
‫can be accessed from AWS directly,
‫or as you can see on this diagram
‫from your on-premises infrastructure.
‫Now, the second flavor of Amazon FSx you have in AWS
‫is called Amazon FSx for Lustre.
‫And you need to remember that this says to have
‫a fully managed, high-performance and scalable file storage
‫for high performance computing.
‫So whenever you see storage for HPC,
‫so high-performance computing, thinks FSx for Lustre.
‫Why, well Lustre, there is derived from the name
‫Linux and cluster, so put together it's Lustre.
‫And so imagine cluster like processing
‫this kind of things, maybe it's a way for you to remember
‫what Amazon FSx for Lustre is.
‫This allows you to run a lot of use cases
‫for high performance computing, such as machine learning,
‫analytics, video processing, financial modeling,
‫and it scales to extremely high traffics
‫in terms of hundreds of gigabytes per second
‫of data exchanged, millions of IO operations per second,
‫sub milliseconds latency,
‫so it's really a high-performance file system.
‫So the way it works is that Amazon FSx for Lustre
‫can be connected either to your corporate data center
‫or to your compute instances directly within AWS.
‫And then in the backend, Amazon FSx for Lustre
‫is actually storing your data,
‫possibly onto an Amazon S3 bucket.
‫So that's it, that's all you need to know for Amazon FSx
‫there is no easy hands-on to do it.
‫So we'll skip that, but just remember the two flavors
‫of Amazon FSx going into the exam,
‫and you should be good to go.
‫So that's it, I will see you in the next lecture.