Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Managed OpenZFS file system
A managed OpenZFS file system accessed over NFS, with low latency, instant snapshots and clones, and data compression.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?Yes
- Managed by AWS
- In examsSAA
Think of it asLike a shared drive with a button that snapshots its state and clones a folder in one second.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Moving Linux workloads that use ZFS/NFS on-prem to AWS when low latency is needed.
✗ Avoid it when
You need auto scaling and don't want to provision capacity → EFS; you need SMB/iSCSI → FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
Common uses
- Migrating on-prem ZFS/NFS NAS
- Fast data cloning for test environments
- Latency-sensitive Linux workloads
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged per GB of capacity, provisioned throughput and IOPS, plus backups.
