Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can now access their file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients without the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. IPv6 support for new FSx for Windows File Server file systems is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon FSx is available, with IPv6 support for existing FSx for Windows File Server file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can now access their file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients without the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. IPv6 support for new FSx for Windows File Server file systems is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon FSx is available, with IPv6 support for existing FSx for Windows File Server file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a fully-managed service that provides file storage built on Windows Server, now supports File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), a Windows Server feature that provides powerful capabilities to manage, govern, and monitor your file data. With FSRM, you can better control storage usage, strengthen compliance, and optimize costs across your FSx for Windows file systems. With this launch, you can now classify, identify, and control sensitive data using file classification and file screening, control storage usage and costs using folder-level quotas, and better understand and optimize your storage usage with storage reports. FSRM on FSx for Windows File Server is also deeply integrated with AWS observability services. You can publish FSRM events directly to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or stream events to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, allowing you to query, process, store, and archive logs, trigger AWS Lambda functions to take reactive actions based on file events, and perform advanced monitoring and analysis to automate administration of your file data. FSRM support is available today at no additional cost for new file systems in all AWS Regions where Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is available. Existing file systems will receive FSRM support during an upcoming maintenance window. To get started, visit File Server Resource Manager in the FSx for Windows User Guide and read the blog Using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.

Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, enabling enhanced protection and management of the Active Directory domain service account credentials for your FSx for Windows File Server file systems and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). Previously, if you wanted to join your FSx for Windows file system or FSx for ONTAP SVM to your Active Directory domain for user authentication and access control, you needed to specify the username and password for your service account in the Amazon FSx Console, Amazon FSx API, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation. With this launch, you can now specify an AWS Secrets Manager secret containing the service account credentials, enabling you to strengthen your security posture by eliminating the need to store plain text credentials in application code or configuration files, and aligning with best practices for credential management. Additionally, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate your Active Directory credentials and consume them when needed in FSx workloads. You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to store your domain join service credentials for all FSx for Windows file systems and FSx for ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines in all AWS Regions where they are available. For more information, see Amazon FSx for Windows File Server documentation and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP documentation.

Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx is built on the latest AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies to provide high performance and lower TCO. And as a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups — freeing you up to focus on your applications, your end users, and your business. To learn more about Amazon FSx, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a fully-managed service that provides file storage built on Windows Server, now supports File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), a Windows Server feature that provides powerful capabilities to manage, govern, and monitor your file data. With FSRM, you can better control storage usage, strengthen compliance, and optimize costs across your FSx for Windows file systems. With this launch, you can now classify, identify, and control sensitive data using file classification and file screening, control storage usage and costs using folder-level quotas, and better understand and optimize your storage usage with storage reports. FSRM on FSx for Windows File Server is also deeply integrated with AWS observability services. You can publish FSRM events directly to https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ Logs or stream events to https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/ Data Firehose, allowing you to query, process, store, and archive logs, trigger https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ functions to take reactive actions based on file events, and perform advanced monitoring and analysis to automate administration of your file data. FSRM support is available today at no additional cost for new file systems in all https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/?refid=bc0b1108-3dde-4bd6-8c6b-5bc65141884a. Existing file systems will receive FSRM support during an upcoming maintenance window. To get started, visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/managing-files-fsrm.html in the FSx for Windows User Guide and read the blog https://aws-blogs-prod.amazon.com/storage/using-file-server-resource-manager-fsrm-for-amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server/.

Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, enabling enhanced protection and management of the Active Directory domain service account credentials for your FSx for Windows File Server file systems and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). Previously, if you wanted to join your FSx for Windows file system or FSx for ONTAP SVM to your Active Directory domain for user authentication and access control, you needed to specify the username and password for your service account in the Amazon FSx Console, Amazon FSx API, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation. With this launch, you can now specify an AWS Secrets Manager secret containing the service account credentials, enabling you to strengthen your security posture by eliminating the need to store plain text credentials in application code or configuration files, and aligning with best practices for credential management. Additionally, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate your Active Directory credentials and consume them when needed in FSx workloads. You can now use AWS Secrets Manager to store your domain join service credentials for all FSx for Windows file systems and FSx for ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines in https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ where they are available. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/what-is.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/getting-started.html.

Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx is built on the latest AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies to provide high performance and lower TCO. And as a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups — freeing you up to focus on your applications, your end users, and your business. To learn more about Amazon FSx, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.

この度AWSHandsonforBeginnersシリーズの新作コンテンツとしてAmazonFSxforWindowsFileServer入門ハンズオンを公開しました社内のファイルサーバー管理が複雑でデータのバックアップや共有に手間がかかっているなどのお悩みはありませんかAWSにはこのような場合にご利用いただけるAmazonFSxというサービスがありその中でも今回はお客様からの要望の多いAmazonFSxforWindowsFileServerを取り上げたいと思いますこれを利用するとWindowsベースの共有ファイルシステムを簡単に構築・管理することができますこのハンズオンではAWSの公式ドキュメントと動画を用いて実際に共有ファイルシステムを構築し操作を体験する手順を含めてご紹介します

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#optinregion (AWS Regions that are disabled by default) for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This launch makes it easier for customers to meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements by extending cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond AWS Regions that are enabled by default. Amazon FSx is a fully managed service that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the AWS Cloud. Opt-in Regions are AWS Regions that are disabled by default, in contrast to regions that are enabled by default. Previously, customers could copy Amazon FSx file system backups across regions enabled by default, within the same AWS account or across AWS accounts in the same AWS Organization. Starting today, you can copy backups into and out of opt-in Regions within the same AWS account using the Amazon FSx console, API, or CLI, or across AWS accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup. This allows you to design resilient, multi-account, cross-Region backup and recovery architectures across a broader set of AWS Regions. To get started, visit the https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx  or the https://console.aws.amazon.com/backup. For more details, see the https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/ and the https://aws.amazon.com/backup/.

AWS Backup is expanding support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Lustre with two regional enhancements. First, AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of these FSx file systems in 5 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). You can now centrally manage FSx backup policies, automate backup schedules, and monitor backup activity through AWS Backup in these Regions. Second, AWS Backup now supports cross-Region and cross-account copy of FSx backups in 14 Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central). This capability is available for both on-demand copies and scheduled backup plans with copy rules. With support in opt-in Regions, you can also store FSx backups in AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults, providing additional defense against inadvertent or malicious deletions and helping you recover from ransomware events. You can now configure cross-Region and cross-account copy rules to meet your compliance and business continuity requirements. To learn more, visit the AWS Backup https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/backup-feature-availability.html.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.  

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. You can now protect your Amazon FSx file system in logically air-gapped vaults in either the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This helps reduce the risk of downtime, ensure business continuity, and meet compliance and disaster recovery requirements. You can get started using the https://console.aws.amazon.com/backup/home, API, or CLI. Target Amazon FSx backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts using https://aws.amazon.com/ram/ (RAM). Once shared, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first. AWS Backup support for the three Amazon FSx file systems is available in all the Regions where logically air-gapped vault and respective Amazon FSx file systems are supported. For more information, visit the AWS Backup https://aws.amazon.com/backup/faqs/, and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/logicallyairgappedvault.html.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.

Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx is built on the latest AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies to provide high performance and lower TCO. And as a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups — freeing you up to focus on your applications, your end users, and your business. To learn more about Amazon FSx, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across opt-in Regions (AWS Regions that are disabled by default) for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This launch makes it easier for customers to meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements by extending cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond AWS Regions that are enabled by default. Amazon FSx is a fully managed service that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the AWS Cloud. Opt-in Regions are AWS Regions that are disabled by default, in contrast to regions that are enabled by default. Previously, customers could copy Amazon FSx file system backups across regions enabled by default, within the same AWS account or across AWS accounts in the same AWS Organization. Starting today, you can copy backups into and out of opt-in Regions within the same AWS account using the Amazon FSx console, API, or CLI, or across AWS accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup. This allows you to design resilient, multi-account, cross-Region backup and recovery architectures across a broader set of AWS Regions. To get started, visit the Amazon FSx console or the AWS Backup console. For more details, see the Amazon FSx product page and the AWS Backup product page.

AWS Backup is expanding support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Lustre with two regional enhancements. First, AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of these FSx file systems in 5 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). You can now centrally manage FSx backup policies, automate backup schedules, and monitor backup activity through AWS Backup in these Regions. Second, AWS Backup now supports cross-Region and cross-account copy of FSx backups in 14 Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central). This capability is available for both on-demand copies and scheduled backup plans with copy rules. With support in opt-in Regions, you can also store FSx backups in AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults, providing additional defense against inadvertent or malicious deletions and helping you recover from ransomware events. You can now configure cross-Region and cross-account copy rules to meet your compliance and business continuity requirements. To learn more, visit the AWS Backup feature availability page.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. You can now protect your Amazon FSx file system in logically air-gapped vaults in either the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This helps reduce the risk of downtime, ensure business continuity, and meet compliance and disaster recovery requirements. You can get started using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. Target Amazon FSx backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Once shared, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first. AWS Backup support for the three Amazon FSx file systems is available in all the Regions where logically air-gapped vault and respective Amazon FSx file systems are supported. For more information, visit the AWS Backup product page, and documentation.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.