Getting Started with Amazon FSx for Lustre

Create and launch your Amazon FSx for Lustre file system

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Sign up for a free AWS account

After learning about Amazon FSx for Lustre, it's easy to sign up for AWS and start using FSx for Lustre to run your compute-intensive workloads on AWS. Here are the simple steps to get started.

If you don't have an AWS account, set one up for free.

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Learn about FSx for Lustre

You can dig into the FAQs for key facts, and dive deeper in the docs. Also, stay tuned for more recorded sessions, blogs and demos.

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Go to the Console

Visit the Amazon FSx for Lustre console to create, launch, and manage your file systems. In minutes, you can create a compute-intensive file system.

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Mount your FSx for Lustre file system

Mount your FSx for Lustre file systems on EC2 instances or on-premises clients.

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Copy data to FSx for Lustre

Link your FSx for Lustre file system to Amazon S3 and automatically copy your data. To burst your workloads from on-premises to FSx for Lustre you can use Amazon Direct Connect or VPN.

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Run your workloads and write results back

Run workloads with your data on FSx for Lustre, and at any time write results back to your long-term S3 data lake or on-premises data store. Simply delete your FSx for Lustre file system when your workload finishes.