Amazon FSx vs WekaFS comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and WekaIO are both solutions in the File System Software category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5, while WekaIO is ranked #3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.2% mindshare in FSS, compared to WekaIO’s 24.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of WekaIO users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon FSx

Ranking in File System Software

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (14th), File and Object Storage (17th)

WekaFS

Ranking in File System Software

3rd

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the File System Software category, the mindshare of Amazon FSx is 6.2%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WekaFS is 24.4%, down from 24.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Shared storage capabilities provide enterprise value with good reliability

Amazon FSx is more costly compared to other storage solutions like EBS or EFS. The auto-scaling feature should be improved, as it currently includes downtime. I need to manually increase the storage, which is not ideal. Integrating FSx with Windows Server is challenging; it's a long process involving Active Directory (AD) setup and synchronization.

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Roberto Telezynski

Solutions Architect - Senior at Storageone

It's really fast, flexible new technology and we don't have any bottlenecks due to speed

It's really fast, flexible and new technology. We don't have any bottlenecks due to speed. We can snapshot all the data to object storage and replicate it to another site using the object storage features. You can take as many snapshots as you want to back up all your data. There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want. Apart from snapshots of data to object storage, you can also tier the data, which is a different procedure. They can provide huge bandwidth or throughput to a single client. This is a very special platform for working with high-performance computing. You can use a server like a DGX or an NVIDIA and provide individual clients with almost 200 gigabytes per second. This is where PowerScale and Isilon have major limitations. We don't have such limitations with Weka. That's why it's been indicated for high-performance computing clusters. I'm very excited to work with this platform.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We used it for disaster recovery perspective behind a number of resources, like batch services and RDS."

"FSx operates as an independent service, not tied to any server, which eliminates dependencies between applications for storage."

"The shared storage capability is highly valuable."

"I rate the stability of Amazon FSx ten out of ten."

"There's no limit to cluster size, so you can grow as many WEKA cluster nodes as you want."

Cons

"Amazon FSx is more costly compared to other storage solutions like EBS or EFS."

"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."

"If the product included synchronous replication and VLAN integration, I would rate it 10 out of 10."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The lowest price I have paid is $370 or $380 per month, while the highest can exceed $3,000 per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Retailer

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon FSx?

A direct FTP feature would be beneficial instead of relying on transmission services. Although I haven't worked extensively with FSx, there seems to be room for more improvement.

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What is your primary use case for Amazon FSx?

Currently, our use case involves moving shared folders on-premises to FSx for cloud-based storage.

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What advice do you have for others considering Amazon FSx?

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre

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Overview

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.

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.

WekaIO Matrix is the world's fastest shared file system that delivers flash performance at cloud scale and economics. The software runs on any Intel-x86 based server hardware infrastructure on-premises or in the cloud.

Sample Customers

Neiman Marcus, T Mobile, Docxellent, Matrix, Lyell

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