You can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems with the Intelligent-Tiering storage class in 13 additional AWS Regions across Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.

The FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivers the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage in the cloud. It is optimized for workloads with a mix of hot and cold data that don't require consistent SSD-level performance. It automatically tiers your data across three storage tiers (Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive) based on access patterns, and an optional SSD read cache keeps your active data fast. You get high performance for active data in your HPC and AI/ML worklaods and low-cost storage for the data you access less often, paying only for what you store with no capacity to provision upfront. With FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering, you get up to 34% better price-performance compared to on-premises HDD file storage, and reduce storage costs for rarely accessed data by up to 96% compared to other fully managed file offerings in the cloud.

With this expansion, the FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class is now available for FSx for Lustre file systems in the following additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town); Europe (Milan, Paris, Spain, Zurich); Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Osaka, Taipei, Thailand); and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, visit the FSx Intelligent-Tiering page and the Amazon FSx for Lustre product page, and see the FSx for Lustre Region Table for complete regional availability information.