Many organizations have on-premises, high-performance workloads burdened with complex management and scalability challenges. Scaling data-intensive workloads on-premises typically involves purchasing more hardware, which can slow time to production and require high upfront investment. The agility to scale compute and storage resources to meet business needs is one of the reasons why our customers choose to move to AWS cloud.
In our new blog post, we are excited to share that Amazon FSx for Lustre (Amazon FSx) has added support for file system storage scaling. You can now increase the storage capacity of your existing Amazon FSx file systems with the click of a button. This capability enables greater flexibility with growing capacity based on your changing business needs. That means you no longer have to worry about the size of the file system during file system creation, avoiding over allocating cost. You can start with a small file system and grow the capacity when it is needed. With the live storage scaling capability, storage capacity increases in a matter of minutes. Since the throughput of an Amazon FSx file system scales linearly with storage capacity, you also get a comparable increase in throughput as you scale the file system.