Type | Serverless, scalable, high-performance file system in the cloud | Fully managed, scalable file storage for Windows Server | Serverless file system that runs on Lustre |
Accessible from | Amazon EC2 Linux instances, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda functions via NFS protocol | Windows, Linux, and MacOS compute instances and devices | Thousands of compute instances |
File System Access Semantics | Strong consistency and file locking | Windows-specific administrative features such as user quotas and Active Directory integration | Fast storage and high performance |
Scalability | Automatically scales to handle petabytes of data | Each file system can store up to 64 TB of data | Manually increase storage capacity every 6 hours |
Storage Classes | Standard, Standard Infrequent Access, One Zone, and One Zone Infrequent Access | SSD or HDD storage options | N/A |
Data Redundancy | Redundantly stored across multiple AZs | Multi-AZ file systems provide automatic failover | N/A |
Data Encryption | At rest and in transit using AWS KMS and TLS 1.2 | At rest and in transit using keys managed through AWS KMS and SMB Kerberos session keys | N/A |
On-Premises Access | Requires AWS Direct Connect or VPN connection | Requires AWS Direct Connect or VPN connection | N/A |
Use Cases | Big data and analytics, media processing, content management, web serving, home directories | CRM, ERP, custom or .NET applications, home directories, data analytics, media and entertainment workflows, software build environments, Microsoft SQL Server | Applications that require fast storage
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