Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to more efficiently run project-based workloads with varying active working sets. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage needs—for periodic reporting, analytics, or large-scale data ingestion and processing—and then easily decrease SSD capacity to reduce storage costs.

An FSx for ONTAP file system offers two storage tiers: a provisioned high-performance SSD tier for your workload’s active working set and a fully elastic capacity pool cost-optimized for infrequently accessed data. Until now, you could only increase your file system’s SSD capacity as your workload’s active working set grew. Starting today, you can decrease your file system's SSD capacity in-place with just a few clicks in the Amazon FSx console, allowing you to deliver optimal performance during peak usage for workloads such as Electronic Design Automation and media processing, then scale down SSD capacity once data processing is complete. You can also accelerate data migrations by temporarily increasing SSD capacity to enable faster data ingestion, then right-sizing SSD capacity after data has been tiered to the capacity pool.

You can decrease SSD storage capacity on all FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems are available. For more information, see the FSx for ONTAP user guide.