Amazon FSx for Lustre HDD-Based Shared Storage for Compute Workloads

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides performance shared storage, announced HDD drive storage options that make it more cost effective to power any compute workload with a fast, shared file system.

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When creating shared file systems for compute workloads, you can now choose between existing SSD storage options and two HDD storage options, each offering different levels of performance. The HDD options reduce storage costs by up to 80% for throughput-intensive workloads that don’t require the sub-millisecond latencies of SSD storage, including genome analysis, financial simulations, and seismic data processing.

Starting at a price of 2.5 cents/GB/month (in the US-East, N. Virginia Region), you can launch and use HDD-based shared storage powered by Lustre, a popular performance file system. Optimized to ensure your shared storage keeps up with your compute, FSx for Lustre’s HDD-based file systems are designed to provide up to 10GB/s of throughput. You can also optionally provision an SSD cache on HDD-based file systems to provide sub-millisecond latencies and higher IO/s for frequently accessed data.

The HDD-based file systems offer the same feature set as FSx for Lustre SSD-based file systems, including automatic daily backups and the ability to link file systems to Amazon S3 buckets for processing data sets residing in S3.

HDD file systems are available in all regions where Amazon FSx is available.

Resources:
Blog: High-Performance HDD Storage for Amazon FSx for Lustre File Systems
Video: Overview: Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Lustre documentation

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April 3, 2020 | Press Release