🔧 Fully-managed File Server service → FileServer-aaS
- Deploy 3rd-party, high-performant, shared File System (FS) in AWS
- 💡 Similar to DBs in RDS: RDS is a DBServer-aaS
- File servers are hidden to customers (like DB servers in RDS)
Private service → Single- or Multi-AZ deployments within a VPC
- File system ENIs deployed to your subnets
- Built-in resilience & HA configurations
- 💡 Even if single-AZ, data can be replicated at AZ-level for resilience
- Since it's in a VPC, FS can also be accessed with VPC Peering, VPN, or DX
Storage options
- SSD → low-latency, IOPS intensive workloads, small & random file operations
- HDD → throughput-intensive workloads, big & sequential file operations, cheaper storage
Currently 4 file systems are supported:
