FSxN for the enterprises review
August 03, 2022
FSxN for the enterprises review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
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.
- Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
- Multiprotocol access
- PV for EKS
- Data mobility
- Data security
- Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
- Data Protection from AWS console
- Advance Matrix
- FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
- NetApp SnapMirror
- NetApp FlexClones
- Multi-protocol access
- 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
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
The beauty here is that I basically had to mark 3 different services to get some of the benefits of just a single service. It brings the best of these 3 solutions with a ton of added capabilities around data management and how to consolidate the usage of many silos into a single place which makes it much easier to manage it, especially for the bigger enterprises.
Do you think Amazon FSx delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon FSx's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon FSx live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon FSx go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon FSx again?
Yes