Amazon FSx provides high-performance file systems in the cloudusing: Lustre, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, and Windows File Server.
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Which FSx System is attache to which EC2 instance?
I have multiple AWS FSx File Systems. Is there a way to find which FSx systems is attached with which EC2 instance ?

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AWS FSx vs S3 File Gateway
let's suppose I have the need to have a NAS-equivalent share on AWS that will replace my on-prem NAS server. I see that both solutions, FSx and S3 File Gateway, allow to have a SMB protocol interface. So they will present themselves to clients in…

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Serve file from FSx to IIS
I've got EC2 instance with IIS and mapped FSx file system on AWS. All in one VPC in one subnet.
IIS config works perfectly as long as it's configured with local drive. When I change config to use path from that mapped FSx I've got an error. Even…

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How to input fsx for lustre to Amazon Sagemaker?
I am trying to set up Amazon sagemaker reading our dataset from our AWS Fsx for Lustre file system.
We are using the Sagemaker API, and previously we were reading our dataset from s3 which worked fine:
estimator = TensorFlow(
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Can I rely on Operating System (OS) Anti Virus (AV) scanning to scan FSX file shares?
I have an EC2 instance with an Windows OS with anti virus installed.
I have a requirement to attach a file share to the OS where the application is hosted. The file share is Amazon Fsx ( Amazon's native windows file system).
Can I rely on the OS…

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Creating an EC2 instance with an AWS FSX mounted isn't showing files
I have created an FSX for Lustre service in AWS, with a Data Repository Association to an S3 bucket. I am looking to create an EC2 instance that has the FSX file share mounted and contains the files that are in the S3 bucket as locally mounted…

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AWS CLI combining operators within a single query
I am running an AWS query command for aws fsx describe-file-systems where I want to combine two operators where it will be looking for FileSystemType=="LUSTRE" and another where Storagecapacity >1200 and then following the another stuff with the…

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When to use EFS over FSx?
I have read through the documentation for the usecases of EFS and FSx but still i'm confused as to when to use one over the other.
Can anyone explain?

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What is the AWS Attribute outputs and ImportValue in cloudformation
i'm starting my AWS journey and today got a chance to Create cloudformation stack for creating a filesystem on the AWS, i was able to spun the filesystem, however I have few
doubts about some values and functions/attributes as those were given by…

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How to restrict domain user access to FsX folders in a EC2 Windows Environment?
Background: A Windows domain set up in AWS EC2 with member servers. We use our own AD which is also hoted in the same VPC. An FsX share has been created that is mounted on all Windows servers that are part of the domain. The FsX share mounts fine.…

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Performance test shows higher IOPS and throughput than whats actually provisioned on FSx for NetApps
I am using fio to run several performance tests on FSx for Netapps. FSx is configured with 1024 GiB of capacity and 128 MB/s throughputs. I am using automatic IOPS provisioning in this case IOPS count is (3 x 1024 = 3072).
But when i ran following…

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Trigger AWS Lambda function whenever a file is added to AWS FSX
I would like to trigger an AWS Lambda Function whenever a new file is added to AWS FSX. This is in order to perform an action on the file using to the Lambda function that gets notified.
While considering AWS cloudtrail, Eventbridge and Cloudwatch…

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ECS - FileSystemNotFound: File system does not exist
I have an ECS service which is of Launch Type EC2 owned by an AWS account A. Our IT team has created an FSx storage owned by an AWS Account B:
When I try to launch tasks I get this not authorized error in the Stopped reason section of the task:
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Userdata powershell script does not map network drive at instance launch time
I have a simple user data script that is executed on an EC2 instance part of an ECS cluster.
Recently, I added the bottom section which tries to map a network drive (FSx) storage to the instance:
user data ps1 script:
Import-Module…

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Using AWS Lambda, how to check if a file exists in FSx, and if it exists, move the folder it is in to a target directory in another FSx share?
I am comfortable with Python but have no experiences with AWS, FSx, or Lambda.
I need to access an FSx share, and iterate to the nth level of every root folder. After the nth iteration, I need to check if "example.txt" exists in that folder. If it…

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