Overview
The Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivers fully elastic file storage that automatically scales up and down with your workloads, which means you pay only for what you use, when you use it. FSx Intelligent-Tiering offers virtually unlimited storage that can scale to terabytes per second of throughput and millions of IOPS for machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. Whether you are migrating existing workloads or launching new cloud-native applications, FSx Intelligent-Tiering automatically optimizes your costs based on access patterns. With no need to provision storage, manage capacity, or implement data lifecycle policies, this storage class eliminates operational overhead while maximizing cost efficiency.
Purpose-built for Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems, FSx Intelligent-Tiering combines performance, pay-for-what-you-use elasticity, and automated cost optimization in a single solution.
Benefits
How FSx Intelligent-Tiering works
Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class that automatically optimizes your storage costs by moving less-accessed data to lower-cost access tiers. This fully elastic storage class continuously monitors your data access patterns without any performance impact or management overhead. For even faster access to your most frequently used data, FSx Intelligent-Tiering offers an optional SSD-based read cache, which provides sub-millisecond latencies.
FSx Intelligent-Tiering access tiers:
- Frequent Access Tier: All data starts here and remains in this tier as long as it's accessed within a 30-day period.
- Infrequent Access Tier: When data hasn't been accessed for 30 days, it automatically moves to this tier, reducing storage costs compared to the Frequent Access Tier.
- Archive Access Tier: After 90 days without access, data transitions to this highly cost-efficient tier, offering additional savings beyond the Infrequent Access Tier.
Any time your data is accessed, it is automatically moved back to the Frequent Access Tier, restarting the tiering timeline. Data stays in the FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class, and it is independent of the other FSx storage options.
Migrate and accelerate ML, generative AI, and HPC with Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Lustre is a service that provides shared file storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system. With FSx Intelligent-Tiering, you get virtually unlimited, fully elastic storage that can scale to terabytes per second of throughput and millions of IOPS for ML and HPC workloads—such as training, inference, weather forecasting, seismic imaging, genomics analysis, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) training.
Migrate Linux applications to FSx for OpenZFS for high-performance file storage
Migrate on-premises NAS workloads running on Linux-based file servers to the cloud with FSx for OpenZFS. With FSx for OpenZFS, you get enterprise-class scale-up performance and availability with elasticity and automatic cost optimization. You can use FSx Intelligent-Tiering to simplify storage management, reduce costs, and make data more accessible so that it can be used for analytics, ML training, genomics, and other use cases.