Migrating SAS grid to the cloud: How Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers low cost, high performance, storage

This article explains how Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering enables cost-effective migration of SAS Grid analytics workloads to the cloud.

• FSx Intelligent-Tiering reduces storage costs up to 96% for infrequently accessed data
• Automatic three-tier data management: Frequent Access (0-30 days), Infrequent Access (30-90 days), Archive (90+ days)
• Data remains instantly accessible across all tiers with tens-of-milliseconds retrieval times
• Fully elastic storage scales from gigabytes to petabytes without upfront provisioning
• Delivers up to 2 TiB/s throughput and millions of IOPS with sub-millisecond latencies
• 34% better price-performance vs. on-premises HDD storage
• Smartronix and T-Mobile saw 50%+ SAS runtime improvements with zero code changes
• Eliminates capital expenditures and operational overhead of on-premises infrastructure

FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering removes traditional barriers to SAS Grid cloud migration by combining high performance, elastic scalability, and low cost.