FSx makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx is built on the latest AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies to provide high performance and lower TCO.
- EFS is needed when you need distributed, highly resilient storage for Linux instances and Linux-based apps.
- FSx for Windows is needed when you centralized storage for Windows-based apps such as SharePoint
- FSx for Lustre is needed when you need high-speed, high-capacity distributed storage. Apps that do HPC. Remember Lustre can store data directly on S3.