Amazon FSx for Lustre adds new storage class that delivers the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage

Amazon FSx for Lustre launches the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, which delivers virtually unlimited scalability, the only fully elastic Lustre storage, and the lowest-cost Lustre file storage in the cloud. FSx for Lustre is a fully managed storage service that delivers terabytes per second of throughput, millions of IOPS, and the fastest storage performance for GPU instances in the cloud. The FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class is optimized for HDD-based or mixed HDD/SSD workloads that have a mix of hot and cold data and don’t require consistent SSD-level performance. For these workloads, the FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivers up to 34% better price-performance compared to on-premises HDD file storage and up to 70% better price-performance compared to other cloud-based Lustre storage.

FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers high performance whether you're starting with gigabytes of experimental data or managing massive petabyte-scale datasets for your most demanding HPC and AI workloads. The Intelligent-Tiering storage class helps you lower costs by automatically scaling your file storage up or down based on your access patterns. This new storage class eliminates expensive overprovisioning and storage management by only charging for the data you store, with automatic tiering between Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers. For your latency-sensitive workloads, an optional SSD read cache delivers SSD-level performance at HDD pricing. The FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class is optimized to deliver the lowest cost and simplest storage management for compute-intensive workloads like weather forecasting, seismic imaging, genomic analysis, and ADAS training.

To learn more about the AWS Regions where the FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class is available, see deployment options for FSx Lustre file systems.

For more information about this new storage class, see the Amazon FSx for Lustre documentation and AWS News Blog.