Move network-attached storage to AWS

Gain virtually unlimited scale, improve data resilience, and reduce storage costs

Why migrate your NAS to AWS?

Managing on-premises NAS at scale is complex, with continuous hardware maintenance, availability limitations, and remote accessibility issues, resulting in untapped siloed data. Unlock your data’s potential by migrating to AWS, offering virtually limitless scalability, enhanced data protection, and cost-optimized storage. Benefit from fully managed file storage that improves data reliability and performance, eliminates data refactoring, and removes infrastructure management. Simplify unstructured data migrations and achieve predictable costs with a flexible pay-as-you-go model.

Migrate NAS and unstructured data to AWS

Benefits

Increase scalability

Achieve virtually unlimited capacity available on demand to scale storage and performance as your workload needs grow.

Improve data resiliency

Gain durability and multi Availability Zone resilience to keep your NAS data accessible to your applications with cross-region replication and protected with immutable and indelible storage.

Reduce total cost of ownership

Pay only for the resources you consume. Save time and resources with fully managed file storage that allows you to retire technical debt and reduce operational costs.

Automate storage operations

Reduce complexity, streamline operational efforts, provision resources faster, and eliminate repetitive manual tasks by automating deployments using infrastructure-as-code.

Value of moving NAS to the cloud

Organizations who migrated to AWS from on-premises saw, on average:

Up to 47%

infrastructure cost savings*

43%

lower time to market for new features*

31%

cost savings compared to on-premises environment**

40%

reduction in migration time compared to self-managed**

45%

gain in labor efficiency by migrating to AWS**

* “The Business Value of Migration to Amazon Web Services,” The Hackett Group, January 2022
** “Forrester Total Economic Impact study 2023," Forrester, February 2023

Cloud NAS Use Cases

Migrate unstructured data

Move on-premises Windows and Linux-based data, user file shares, team shares, and home directories to achieve multi-protocol data access without the need to modify code or workflows.

Lift and shift applications

Boost enterprise application performance for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA and virtualized workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS with consistent sub-millisecond latencies.

Strengthen data protection

Safeguard data with automated highly durable backups and recover your data to meet Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives (RPO/RTO).

Streamline operations

Accelerate workflows with hybrid cloud bursting, seamlessly provide capacity on demand, curtail hardware refresh cycle complexity, and reduce infrastructure maintenance.

AWS Storage for NAS workloads

Amazon FSx provides you with a fully managed file storage that handles the storage infrastructure allowing your data to migrate to the cloud with no changes to your code, processes, or how you manage your data. And you can choose the file system technology that matches your on-premises file system's feature sets, performance profiles, and data management capabilities.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP

Fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Amazon FSx for
OpenZFS

Fully managed shared storage built on the popular OpenZFS file system.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for
Windows File Server

Fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server.

NAS Customer Case Studies

CyberAgent
“Creating a backup infrastructure for our on-premises NAS proved more difficult than we thought. On-premises solutions were costly and did not meet our RTO objectives. Amazon FSx made it super easy, fast, and cheap by using tools we were already familiar with – a no brainer.”

Shuichiro Makigaki
Corporate System Division – CyberAgent Inc
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AdvancedMD
“We simply set up the volumes, and AWS monitors and manages the backend. The one thing we didn't initially account for was the effectiveness of the compression, deduplication, and storage tiering features - we ended up saving a lot more money than expected!”

Adam Holt
Site Reliability Engineer - - AdvancedMD
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Burt
“We use FSx for NetApp ONTAP to store 1.3PB of medical imaging data for a statewide enterprise image repository. The solution provides the reliability and scalability of an AWS fully managed service with the flexibility offered by NetApp ONTAP, reducing the operational management overhead for eHealth, and enabling resources to focus on delivering greater value to the state healthcare system.”

Farhoud Salimi
Executive Director, Service Delivery - eHealth NSW
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MediaSite
"Migrating from on-premises to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has reduced our operational burden, and enables us to scale our content delivery capabilities quickly to meet the needs of our valued customers at the lowest possible price."

Jeff Bailey
VP, Information Technology & Cloud Services - MediaSite
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Burt
"FSX for ONTAP gives us all the NetApp capabilities fully managed by AWS. So we were able to take advantage of all the things that NetApp ONTAP provides. All these capabilities allow us to easily move workloads from the data center to the cloud without having to redesign the entire storage architecture."

Norm Nadeau
VP of Site Reliability Engineering - Pearson
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Burt
"AWS provides us the best compute and storage to migrate our mission-critical SQL workloads. We were able to get highly available and performant storage with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server for our SQL nodes using SQL Failover Clustering, which also allowed us to keep our Microsoft SQL licensing costs way down. A win-win for all."

Urs Bertschinger
VP, Research & Development Services - Change Healthcare
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Burt
John Holland Group lost access to over 90 critical on-premises business applications. The company was able to perform an emergency migration to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and restore most of its critical applications in 24 hours, and migrated all 90+ applications within 48 hours.

"If we'd had to restore back into the previous environment, the business would have been impacted for 3–4 weeks.”

Kier Morrison
General manager of information technology operations - John Holland Group
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