Amazon FSx for Lustre increases maximum metadata IOPS by 15x

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, is increasing the maximum level of metadata IO operations per second (IOPS) you can drive on a file system by 15x, and now allows you to provision metadata IOPS independently of your file system’s storage capacity.

A file system’s level of metadata IOPS determines the number of files and directories that you can create, list, read, and delete per second. By default, the metadata IOPS of an FSx for Lustre file system scales with its storage capacity. Starting today, you can provision 15x higher metadata performance per file system—independently of your file system’s storage capacity—allowing you to scale to even higher levels of performance, accelerate time-to-results, and optimize your storage costs for metadata-intensive machine learning research and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. You can also update your file system’s metadata IOPS level with the click of a button, allowing you to quickly increase performance as your workloads scale.