Amazon FSx for Lustre
The facts below are what Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes about Amazon FSx for Lustre, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Amazon FSx for Lustre's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent-Tiering (elastic) storage class | — | Frequent, Infrequent, and Archive Instant Access storage · monitoring and automation · optional SSD read cache · data access requests · throughput capacity · metadata IOPS · Monthly pricing, prorated by the second; billed for average usage over a month. |
| SSD or HDD (provisioned) storage class | — | Storage provisioned · optional metadata IOPS · backups · data transfer · Monthly pricing, prorated by the second; billed for average usage over a month. |
The facts
Each one read from Amazon FSx for Lustre's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access methods
- With an AWS account, users can create a file system through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or Amazon FSx API and SDKs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says Amazon FSx meets PCI DSS, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and SOC 1, 2, and 3 standards, and is HIPAA eligible.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Compression and quotas
- The service supports LZ4 data compression and user- and group-level storage quotas.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Compute integrations
- AWS lists integrations with Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Batch, and AWS ParallelCluster.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- Scratch file systems suit temporary processing and do not replicate data, while persistent file systems replicate data and replace failed file servers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Performance
- AWS states that it offers up to 1200 Gbps per-client throughput with Elastic Fabric Adapter and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, millions of IOPS, and sub-millisecond latencies.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Pricing model
- AWS says there are no minimum fees or setup charges, and usage is prorated by the second.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed, scalable high-performance file storage service for compute-intensive workloads.checked 8 Oct 2026
- S3 integration
- Linked S3 objects are presented as files, and FSx for Lustre can synchronize file system changes back to the linked bucket.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- All file systems are encrypted at rest; in-transit encryption is available in select regions, and VPC security groups can control network access.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Storage classes
- AWS offers SSD storage for consistently low latency across the dataset and Intelligent-Tiering with automatic tiering and optional SSD read caching.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Storage pricing
- AWS says Intelligent-Tiering starts at less than $0.005 per GB-month and automatically tiers data across Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- AWS identifies machine learning, HPC, video processing, financial modeling, genome sequencing, and electronic design automation as use cases.checked 8 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Client platforms
- The service is compatible with Linux-based AMIs including Amazon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu; clients mount the file system using standard Linux commands.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- AWS says Amazon Web Services launched in 2006 and is part of Amazon.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2006checked 7 Oct 2026
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