Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP
: Technology Overview
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FSx for ONTAP is certified and designed to optimally answer the performance, resilience, and accessibility needs of business-critical workloads, delivering outstanding cost-performance results through a comprehensive and flexible set of storage features.
Accessibility
Make your data more accessible without the hassle
Make your data more accessible without the hassle
FSx for ONTAP supports multiple storage types in a single service:
- Easily provision file storage for NFS and/or SMB access
- Create shared block storage for iSCSI and NVMe/TCP access
- Deploy object storage buckets for S3 access
Multiprotocol support adds flexibility by letting you access data using different protocols simultaneously
Resilience & Protection
Achieve high data availability with inherent protection for all your workloads
Achieve high data availability with inherent protection for all your workloads
- Both Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations are available with FSx for ONTAP
- Instant, point-in-time Snapshot copies protect your data with no performance overhead and minimal storage consumption
- Time- and space-efficient incremental backup and retrieval keeps your data resilient
- Maintain business continuity with built-in cross-region replication and automatic failover with 1-min RPO and minimal RTO
Security & Compliance
Keep your data accessible to authorized users and protected from cyber threats
Keep your data accessible to authorized users and protected from cyber threats
- Isolated data volumes, isolated traffic, and security per tenant provide data segregation within the same storage service via separate storage virtual machines (SVMs)
- Active Directory integration and file auditing allow full data access authentication and operational tracing
- Write-once-read-many (WORM) storage and tamperproof Snapshot copies keep your data immutable
- Autonomous ransomware protection, antivirus integration, and file screening provide comprehensive malware protection
Cost Optimization
FSx for ONTAP has inherent cost-efficiency features that can significantly reduce your overall AWS storage spend
FSx for ONTAP has inherent cost-efficiency features that can significantly reduce your overall AWS storage spend
- Thin provisioning, deduplication and compression shrink your data footprint
- Storage tiering automatically moves infrequently accessed data to a lower cost storage tier
- On demand throughput and IOPS levels at scale help maintain optimal performance at minimal cost
Data copies
Move and access your data easily and quickly for efficient development cycles and collaboration
Move and access your data easily and quickly for efficient development cycles and collaboration
- Thin clones allow you to instantly create dev/test environments and refresh databases with near-zero additional capacity or costs
- Writable data caching makes local data copies accessible remotely, so your teams can collaborate wherever they’re located
- Efficient data replication quickly creates full secondary copies of your data to support disaster recovery, backup, and hybrid environment strategies
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BlueXP workload factory for AWS
NetApp® BlueXP™ workload factory for AWS is an intelligent optimization and automation service that uses industry best practices to design, set up, and operate key workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
