Running Highly Performant File Systems with Amazon FSx
Amazon FSx, a service that can help you run file-based workloads across multiple instances cost-effectively and with great scale. This lesson will cover both FSx for Windows file system and FSx for Lustre, the two choices you have when deploying an FSx workload.
Learning objectives
- Understand when to use Amazon FSx for Windows file server
- Understand When to use FSX for Lustre
- Be able to describe the differences between the two
- Learn why you would want to use FSx vs EFS
Intended Audience
This lesson has been designed for solutions architects or developers who want to understand how to create a shared file system within AWS. This lesson is also helpful if you are looking to understand the difference between Amazon FSx and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)
Prerequisites
You should have a good understanding of cloud computing and cloud architectures, specifically with Amazon Web Services.
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