#Fsx for openzfs driver

Storage analysts and consultants described OpenZFS as a popular and proven file system, but cautioned that any data moved over to AWS becomes another driver for the ubiquitous hyperscaler expense and expense.ĭave Raffo, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, said AWS has not been shy about adding new file systems or looking for future vendor partnerships, primarily in an effort to bring everyone into the fold. “Our goal is to get them up and running in minutes at AWS,” she said. Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, vice president of block and object storage at AWS, said the growth of these services stems from customer demand to integrate on-premises file workloads into a cloud environment for the ‘Scalability, eliminating hardware overhead and availability for replication or retention requirements. Additional managed file services sold by AWS include Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Luster, an open source parallel distributed file system that received two new features in a recent product update. The hyperscaler’s Amazon FSx for OpenZFS arrives just months after the addition of Amazon FSx for NetApp OnTap.

AWS doubled its managed file services in its FSx portfolio this year with new support for OpenZFS, an open source file storage system.