Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

Today, AWS announces the public preview of a new storage migration capability for AWS Transform that enables application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams to migrate block storage workloads from any on-premises or cloud source to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), alongside the existing Amazon EBS option. AWS Transform for migrations is an agentic AI service that automates the discovery, planning, and migration of workloads, accelerating infrastructure modernization with increased speed and confidence. FSx for ONTAP is a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp's ONTAP file system, allowing you to migrate on-premises applications that rely on NetApp ONTAP or other storage appliances to AWS without having to change how you manage your data. Customers migrating to AWS have traditionally managed storage migration separately, using additional tools and workflows. With this new capability, AWS Transform replicates block storage data directly to FSx for ONTAP volumes as part of the same migration wave that handles compute and network, eliminating the need for intermediate storage platforms, separate migration tools, and the additional cost and risk they introduce. Whether migrating from NetApp ONTAP or any other storage platform, including block storage or NFS datastores in VMware environments, customers access a fully managed service that combines ONTAP's enterprise capabilities with the scalability and resiliency of AWS. To get started, visit https://aws.amazon.com/transform/migrations/. To learn more about the storage destination service, see the https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/ product page.

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 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 Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), an AWS service that enables you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed AWS service built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system. With this integration, Amazon EVS customers can use FSx for ONTAP as a scalable, high-performance external datastore for their VCF environments on AWS, enabling them to benefit from cost savings through independent scaling of storage and compute, and automated data tiering. If you’re running VMware with ONTAP on-premises, you can use the same tools and workflows to easily migrate those workloads to AWS and maintain operational consistency. NetApp ONTAP is commonly used as the underlying storage for VMware workloads like databases, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and line-of-business applications due to its advanced data management features such as snapshots, clones, replication, and storage efficiencies. With this integration, you can improve agility and reduce costs by scaling storage independently from compute, improve data protection, and further optimize costs with automated data tiering to low-cost storage and storage efficiencies. And, you can now migrate and extend your VMware workloads easily to AWS while leveraging the same data management capabilities. The Amazon EVS integration with FSx for ONTAP is now available for public preview in all AWS Regions where both Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP are available. To get started, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/evs/ website. For more information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/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 Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), an AWS service that enables you to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, now integrates with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed AWS service built on NetApp’s ONTAP file system. With this integration, Amazon EVS customers can use FSx for ONTAP as a scalable, high-performance external datastore for their VCF environments on AWS, enabling them to benefit from cost savings through independent scaling of storage and compute, and automated data tiering. If you’re running VMware with ONTAP on-premises, you can use the same tools and workflows to easily migrate those workloads to AWS and maintain operational consistency. NetApp ONTAP is commonly used as the underlying storage for VMware workloads like databases, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and line-of-business applications due to its advanced data management features such as snapshots, clones, replication, and storage efficiencies. With this integration, you can improve agility and reduce costs by scaling storage independently from compute, improve data protection, and further optimize costs with automated data tiering to low-cost storage and storage efficiencies. And, you can now migrate and extend your VMware workloads easily to AWS while leveraging the same data management capabilities. The Amazon EVS integration with FSx for ONTAP is now available for public preview in all AWS Regions where both Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP are available. To get started, visit the Amazon EVS website. For more information, visit the FSx for ONTAP documentation.

AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts. You can copy your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to another AWS Region, another AWS account, or both, using policy-based backup plans or on-demand copy jobs. Copying backups to a separate Region helps you meet cross-Region disaster recovery and business continuity goals, while copying to a separate account helps protect your backups from accidental deletion, operational error, or account compromise. AWS Backup manages these copies centrally, and you can automate them across your organization using AWS Organizations. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and AWS Backup are available. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. For a complete list of supported Regions and features, visit the AWS Backup documentation. To learn more, visit the product page and pricing page.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp's popular ONTAP file system, now supports copying backups within and across AWS Regions, and across trusted accounts in your AWS organization. You can now provide an additional layer of protection for your data by storing secondary backup copies in a different Region or account than your primary copies, making it easier to meet your business continuity, data protection, and compliance requirements. Amazon FSx offers secure, highly durable, and incremental backups designed to support your data retention, archival, and compliance needs. Backups are point-in-time offline copies of your volumes, stored redundantly across multiple Availability Zones in the same Region as your file system. Previously, you could create and restore backups in the same Region and account as your file system. Starting today, you can copy backup data to multiple Regions and accounts for enhanced resilience, data isolation, and operational flexibility. You can copy new and existing backups in https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ where Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is available. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/getting-started.html and the https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/.

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Canada (Central). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/what-is-fsx-ontap.html.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Canada (Central). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the FSx for ONTAP user guide.

AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts. You can copy your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to another AWS Region, another AWS account, or both, using policy-based backup plans or on-demand copy jobs. Copying backups to a separate Region helps you meet cross-Region disaster recovery and business continuity goals, while copying to a separate account helps protect your backups from accidental deletion, operational error, or account compromise. AWS Backup manages these copies centrally, and you can automate them across your organization using AWS Organizations. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and AWS Backup are available. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. For a complete list of supported Regions and features, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/backup-feature-availability.html#supported-services-by-region. To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/backup/ and https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp's popular ONTAP file system, now supports copying backups within and across AWS Regions, and across trusted accounts in your AWS organization. You can now provide an additional layer of protection for your data by storing secondary backup copies in a different Region or account than your primary copies, making it easier to meet your business continuity, data protection, and compliance requirements. Amazon FSx offers secure, highly durable, and incremental backups designed to support your data retention, archival, and compliance needs. Backups are point-in-time offline copies of your volumes, stored redundantly across multiple Availability Zones in the same Region as your file system. Previously, you could create and restore backups in the same Region and account as your file system. Starting today, you can copy backup data to multiple Regions and accounts for enhanced resilience, data isolation, and operational flexibility. You can copy new and existing backups in all AWS Regions where Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is available. To learn more, visit the FSx for NetApp ONTAP user guide and the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP product page.

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 NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).  Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/ file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/what-is-fsx-ontap.html.  

You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, your file data in FSx for NetApp ONTAP is effortlessly accessible for use with the broad range of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics services and applications that work with S3 while your file data continues to reside in your FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file system in the cloud, allowing you to migrate on-premises applications that rely on NetApp ONTAP or other NAS appliances to AWS without having to change how you manage your data. An S3 Access Point is an endpoint that helps control and simplify how different applications or users can access data. Now, with S3 Access Points for FSx for NetApp ONTAP, you can discover new insights, innovate faster, and make even better data-driven decisions with the data you migrate to AWS. For example, you can use your data to augment generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock, train machine learning models with Amazon SageMaker, run analysis using Amazon Glue or a wide range of AWS Data and Analytics Competency Partner solutions, and run workflows using S3-based cloud-native applications. Get started with this capability by creating and attaching S3 Access Points to new FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK). Support for existing FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems will come in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. This new capability is available in the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/accessing-data-via-s3-access-points.html#access-points-for-fsx-ontap-supported-regions. To get started, see the following list of resources: https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/access-points/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-fsx-for-openzfs-now-supports-amazon-s3-access-without-any-data-movement/

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to more efficiently run project-based workloads with varying active working sets. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage needs—for periodic reporting, analytics, or large-scale data ingestion and processing—and then easily decrease SSD capacity to reduce storage costs. An https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/ file system offers two storage tiers: a provisioned high-performance SSD tier for your workload’s active working set and a fully elastic capacity pool cost-optimized for infrequently accessed data. Until now, you could only increase your file system’s SSD capacity as your workload’s active working set grew. Starting today, you can decrease your file system's SSD capacity in-place with just a few clicks in the Amazon FSx console, allowing you to deliver optimal performance during peak usage for workloads such as Electronic Design Automation and media processing, then scale down SSD capacity once data processing is complete. You can also accelerate data migrations by temporarily increasing SSD capacity to enable faster data ingestion, then right-sizing SSD capacity after data has been tiered to the capacity pool. You can decrease SSD storage capacity on all FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems are available. For more information, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/storage-capacity-and-IOPS.html#decreasing-ssd-capacity.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to run project-based workloads with varying active working set sizes more efficiently. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage needs—for periodic reporting, analytics, or large-scale data ingestion and processing—and then easily decrease SSD capacity to optimize resource utilization and reduce storage costs. An FSx for ONTAP file system offers two storage tiers: a provisioned high-performance SSD tier for your active working set, and a fully elastic capacity pool cost-optimized for infrequently accessed data. Previously, you could increase a file system’s SSD capacity to meet your workload’s growing active working set but decreasing SSD capacity required migrating to a file system with smaller SSD capacity incurring administrative overhead and tolerating application downtime. Starting today, you can decrease your file system’s provisioned SSD capacity in-place with just a few clicks in the Amazon FSx console. You can deliver optimal performance to serve peak usage for workloads with varying high-performance storage requirements, including Electronic Design Automation jobs like chip fabrication and circuit simulation, and Media & Entertainment tasks like video editing and transcoding. Once data processing in SSD storage is complete, and results have been archived, you can decrease SSD capacity to optimize resource utilization. You can even accelerate large-scale data migrations by provisioning SSD capacity to temporarily accommodate more data in SSD, ensuring faster data ingestion, subsequently decreasing SSD capacity after data has been tiered to the capacity pool to optimize storage costs. You can decrease SSD storage capacity on all FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems are available. For more information, see the /fsx/netapp-ontap/.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/what-is-fsx-ontap.html.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports write-back mode for ONTAP FlexCache volumes. Write-back mode is a new ONTAP capability that helps you achieve faster performance for your write-intensive workloads that are distributed across multiple AWS Regions and on-premises file systems. FlexCache is an ONTAP caching technology that enables distributed access to data. Previously, FlexCache only supported write-around mode, where every write operation to a FlexCache volume had to go back to the origin volume before it was acknowledged, increasing write latency. Starting today, FSx for ONTAP now supports the new write-back mode for FlexCache. Write-back mode improves the performance of write-heavy workloads by caching writes locally on FlexCache volumes and asynchronously updating the origin volume, reducing write latency. You can now use write-back mode to improve write performance for write-intensive distributed applications such as collaborative content creation, distributed databases, and engineering workflows that need to operate across multiple AWS Regions or between cloud and on-premises environments. Starting today, you can enable FlexCache write-back mode at no additional cost on all FSx for ONTAP file systems in https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ where the service is available. For more information, refer to the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/what-is-fsx-ontap.html.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/ontap/, 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 NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. 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 NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/ontap/, and see the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ for complete regional availability information.  

https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). ARP is a NetApp ONTAP feature that proactively monitors your file system for unusual activity and automatically generates ONTAP snapshots when a potential attack is detected, helping you protect your business-critical data against a broader set of ransomware and malware attacks. When enabled on your FSx for ONTAP storage volumes, ARP analyzes your workload access patterns to proactively detect suspicious activity – including changes in the randomness of data in files, the usage of unusual file extensions, and surges in abnormal volume activity with encrypted data – that might indicate a potential ransomware or malware attack. If activity is detected, ARP will automatically create a snapshot of the affected storage volume and generate alerts that you can monitor via EMS messages or the ONTAP CLI and REST API. By helping protect your file system against ransomware and malware attacks, ARP helps you maintain business continuity and improve data protection for your business-critical data stored on FSx for ONTAP. NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection is now available at no additional cost for all FSx for ONTAP file systems in https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ where the service is available. For more information on how to enable ARP on your file system, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/ARP.html. For detailed information on ARP, see https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/anti-ransomware/#autonomous-ransomware-protection-with-artificial-intelligence-arpai.  

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/ONTAPGuide/what-is-fsx-ontap.html.