Announcing Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for FSx

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for Amazon FSx that costs up to 85% less than the FSx SSD storage class and up to 20% less than traditional HDD-based NAS storage on premises, and that brings full elasticity and intelligent tiering to network-attached storage (NAS). The new storage class is available today on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.

Using Amazon FSx, customers can launch and run fully managed cloud file systems that have familiar NAS capabilities such as point-in-time snapshots, data clones, and user quotas. Before today, customers have been moving NAS data sets for mission-critical and performance-intensive workloads to FSx for OpenZFS, using the existing SSD storage class for predictable high performance. With the new FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class, customers can now bring to FSx for OpenZFS a broad range of general-purpose data sets, including those with a large proportion of infrequently accessed data stored on low-cost HDD on premises. FSx Intelligent-Tiering delivers low-cost storage and costs up to 85% less than the FSx SSD storage class and up to 20% less than traditional HDD-based NAS storage on premises. With FSx Intelligent-Tiering, customers no longer need to provision or manage storage and get automatic storage cost optimization as data access patterns change. There are no upfront costs or commitments to use the storage class, and customers pay only for the resources used.

FSx Intelligent-Tiering can be used when creating a new FSx for OpenZFS file system in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo).

For more information about this feature, visit the FSx for OpenZFS documentation page.