Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Features
Overview
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a storage service that allows you to launch and run fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. It provides the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of NetApp file systems with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of a fully managed AWS service.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers high-performance file storage that’s broadly accessible from Linux, Windows, and macOS compute instances via the industry-standard NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-over-TCP protocols. It enables you to use ONTAP’s widely adopted data management capabilities, like snapshots, clones, and replication, with the click of a button. In addition, it provides low-cost storage capacity that’s fully elastic and virtually unlimited in size, and supports compression and deduplication to help you further reduce storage costs.
Administration and Management
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Data migration
Point-in-time, instantaneous cloning
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports NetApp’s FlexClone feature, enabling you to create a clone of the volumes in your file system instantaneously with the click of a button. A clone is a point-in-time, writable copy of its parent volume that shares data blocks with its parent, which means the clone consumes no storage for data shared with its parent, taking up minimal incremental space in your file system.
As an example, if you are running a database workload and would like to test a database operation prior to executing it against your production database, you can test the operation by creating a clone of your database, running the operation against the clone to validate that it works as expected, and then deleting the clone when you’re done with your test.
Accessibility
Open allMulti-protocol: NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-over-TCP
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides access to shared file storage over all versions of the Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) protocols, and also supports multi-protocol access (i.e. concurrent NFS and SMB access) to the same data. As a result, you can access Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP from virtually any Linux, Windows, or macOS client.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP also provides shared block storage over the iSCSI and NVMe-over-TCP protocols.
Access from AWS compute services
Performance and Scale
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Low-latency access
Storage scalability
Scale-out file systems
Support for high performance database workloads
Cost Optimization
Open allElastic capacity pool tiering
Each Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system has two storage tiers: primary storage and capacity pool storage. Primary storage is provisioned, scalable, high-performance SSD storage that’s purpose-built for the active portion of your data set. Capacity pool storage is a fully elastic storage tier that can scale to petabytes in size and is cost-optimized for infrequently-accessed data. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP automatically tiers data from SSD storage to capacity pool storage based on your access patterns, allowing you to achieve SSD levels of performance for your workload while only paying for SSD storage for a small fraction of your data. Capacity pool storage automatically grows and shrinks as you tier data to it, providing elastic storage for the portion of your data set that grows over time without the need to plan or provision capacity for this data.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP also gives you the flexibility to choose from a range of tiering policies to define how the data in each of your volumes is tiered to and from capacity pool storage. See the Amazon FSx documentation for more information on the tiering policies for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP .
Compression and deduplication
Flexible storage management
Flexible throughput and IOPS selection
Pricing
With Amazon FSx, you pay only for the resources you use.
You are billed for the amount of SSD storage you provision (per GB-mo), and you are billed for capacity pool storage and backup storage based on the storage space consumed (per GB-mo).
You are billed for the amount of throughput capacity you provision for your file systems (per MBps-mo), and are billed per-request for requests to/from capacity pool storage (per read and write operation).
You are billed for file systems based on the storage capacity (per GB-mo), SSD IOPS (per IOPS-mo), and throughput capacity (per MBps-mo) that you provision.
Storage and throughput capacity are billed per second, ensuring that you only pay for resources for the period of time when you’re using them.
Availability and Data Protection
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Snapshots and file restore
Cross-region replication
Automated backups
Write-once-read-many (WORM) protection
Hybrid Workflow Support
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Backup and disaster recovery to AWS
Cloud bursting
Security and Compliance
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Resource-level permissions
Identity-based authentication
Encryption
Logging and auditing
Compliance
File access auditing
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports auditing end-user access to your files and folders using ONTAP’s native audit logging capabilities. If you enable audit event logging, ONTAP will record file access events to a log file that you specify in your file system. You can then read that log file using applications such as Windows Event Viewer.
Amazon Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP also fully supports ONTAP’s FPolicy feature with AWS Partner solutions to monitor for file access events.