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Amazon FSx

Score8.1 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Amazon FSx?

Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Amazon FSx has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 8 ratings of Amazon FSx's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Document collaboration

    Users can edit files and attach comments to files.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Access control

    Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.

    Category average: 8.6

  • User and role management

    Administrators can manage users and user groups by role, in terms of setting permissions for things like file access, sharing, and editing permissions.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Device sync

    Device syncing that updates files connected to the cloud, keeping all files up to date regardless of where they are edited or viewed.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Video files

    Supports video file types

    Category average: 8

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Amazon FSx.
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File transfer and document management product

Incentivized
Judith PerezView profile
Brand Manager in Product Management at bpost (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We depend on this server to host and save our files across the entire organization. The platform has a very high speed of data transfer that saves us a lot of time when sharing files with our colleagues. Documents with our organization transactions and any workflow-related operation are securely kept in this tool.

Pros

  • saving our files.
  • Data transfer system across our company.

Cons

  • I have not experienced any new room for improvement.
  • All the features perform effectively.

Most Important Features

  • Provision of data storage disks.
  • Enhancement of data security.

Return on Investment

  • It has contributed to positive ROI.
  • Achievement of our plans has been enhanced.

FSxN for the enterprises review

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Before this amazing service, we had to use different solutions in different silos, and with any of the existing solutions, we had gaps from what we expect from an enterprise-grade solution. The resiliency, the number of features AWS has in terms of efficiencies and data mobility is lacking and they have no way to have cross-platform access, or to enjoy cross efficiencies. With FSxN we have the entire goodies that NetApp has developed for 30 years now for the enterprise, with centralized unified storage, as a fully managed IaaS. Awesome! We based our entire storage platform on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for any NAS (SMB and NFS) and iSCSI workloads.

Pros

  • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
  • Multiprotocol access
  • PV for EKS
  • Data mobility
  • Data security
  • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager

Cons

  • Data Protection from AWS console
  • Advance Matrix
  • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console

Most Important Features

  • NetApp Cloud Manager
  • NetApp SnapMirror
  • NetApp FlexClones
  • Multi-protocol access

Return on Investment

  • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
  • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
  • It removed needed expertise from our engineers

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Other Software Used

NetApp Cloud Manager, monday.com, TickTick