Amazon FSx Reviews

Name: Amazon FSx
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

2 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon FSx?

Amazon FSx makes it easy and cost effective to launch and run popular file systems. With Amazon FSx, you can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. It provides cost-efficient capacity and high levels of reliability, and it integrates with other AWS services so that you can manage and use the file systems in cloud-native ways.

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Amazon FSx is the #6 ranked solution in top File System Software solutions, #14 ranked solution in top Cloud Storage solutions, and #17 ranked solution in top File and Object Storage solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon FSx an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 2 most recent Amazon FSx reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 8.8. (The highest in the category). Amazon FSx is most commonly compared to Nasuni: Amazon FSx vs Nasuni. Amazon FSx is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a manufacturing company, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Valuable Features

"FSx operates as an independent service, not tied to any server, which eliminates dependencies between applications for storage."
"We used it for disaster recovery perspective behind a number of resources, like batch services and RDS."

Room for Improvement

"A direct FTP feature would be beneficial instead of relying on transmission services."
"I've been facing a challenge when doing a failover from FSx side. AWS console does not refresh within a half hour."

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

24%

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

Media Company

Construction Company

University

Legal Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Hospitality Company

Government

Outsourcing Company

Pharma/Biotech Company

International Affairs Institute

Recruiting/Hr Firm

Mining And Metals Company

Marketing Services Firm

Transportation Company

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Learn more about Amazon FSx

Amazon FSx provides you with two file systems to choose from: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server for enterprise workloads and Amazon FSx for Lustre for high-performance workloads.

Amazon FSx was previously known as Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre.