<![CDATA[# Amazon Storage High Performance Options
## EFS
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files with no need for management or provisioning. Uses NFS Protocol
### Cost
Standard Storage (GB-Month) - $0.30
Standard-Infrequent Access Storage (GB-Month) - $0.025
One Zone Storage (GB-Month) - $0.16
One Zone-Infrequent Access Storage (GB-Month) - $0.0133
Infrequent Access Requests (per GB transferred) - $0.01
Elastic Throughput Requests - Data and Metadata Reads (per GB transferred) - $0.03
Elastic Throughput Requests - Data and Metadata Writes (per GB transferred) - $0.06
Provisioned Throughput (MB/s-Month) - $6.00
AWS Backup - Warm Storage / Cold Storage (GB-Month) - $0.05 / $0.01
## FSx for OpenZFS
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system and accessible through the NFS protocol
### Cost
SSD storage capacity - $0.090 per GB-month
Backup storage - $0.050 per GB-month
Throughput capacity - $0.260 per MBps-month
SSD IOPS - $0.0060 per IOPS-month
*Assumes typical compression savings of 50% for general-purpose file sharing workloads
## FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.
### Cost
Persistent file systems
125 MB/s/TiB - $0.145 per GB-month
250 MB/s/TiB - $0.210 per GB-month
500 MB/s/TiB - $0.340 per GB-month
1,000 MB/s/TiB - $0.600 per GB-month
Scratch file systems
200/MB/s/TiB - $0.140 per GB-month
Backup Storage - $0.050 per GB-month
*Assumes typical savings of 50%
## FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities.
### Cost
Amazon FSx can also deduplicate and compress your data. Typical savings are as follows:
Office documents, photos, music, and videos - 30-50%
Software binaries, build files, and program symbols - 70-80%
General-purpose file share contents (mix of the above) - 50-60%
SSD storage capacity - $0.130 per GB-month
HDD storage capacity - $0.013 per GB-month
Throughput capacity - $2.200 per MBps-month
Backup storage - $0.050 per GB-month
*Assumes typical savings of 50% for general-purpose file share contents
## FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides fully managed shared storage in the AWS Cloud with the popular data access and management capabilities of ONTAP.
### Cost
SSD storage capacity - $0.125 per GB-month
Standard capacity pool storage consumed - $0.0219 per GB-month
Backup storage - $0.050 per GB-month
SnapLock licensing - $0.0244 per GB-month**
Performance & requests
Throughput capacity - $0.720 per MBps-month
SSD IOPS - $0.0170 per IOPS-month
Capacity pool read requests - $0.0004 per 1000 requests
Capacity pool write requests - $0.0050 per 1000 requests
*With compression + deduplication savings for general-purpose file sharing workloads
**You pay for SnapLock licensing only for the first 60TB of billed SnapLock storage per region and per account.]]>
