Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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Fully managed FSx for ONTAP keeps it simple

Easily launch, run, and scale apps on AWS. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP brings the capabilities of NetApp^® ONTAP^® to a native AWS managed service that delivers one consistent user experience. It offers the compute, security, monitoring, and data services you need—integrated with the complete NetApp portfolio.

Extend and migrate enterprise apps with ease

With multiprotocol support for Linux, Windows, and iSCSI instances, you can run applications in AWS without changing how you store or manage your data.

Optimize performance and costs

Avoid the headaches of data silos. Consolidate for efficiency. Simplify operations with continuously automated data management that extends across your hybrid cloud.

Get real-time data protection

FSx for ONTAP enables broadly accessible data that’s protected and secure, compliant and governed, analyzed and monitored.

Build and test cloud-native apps faster

Achieve success by implementing and maintaining infrastructure as code, making it faster and easier than ever to develop new applications.

Why NetApp and AWS

We’re committed to helping you navigate data challenges and get more value from the cloud. With NetApp cloud solutions, you maintain full control over your data across hybrid cloud environments. Get the same efficiencies you’d expect on premises but readily available in the AWS cloud—all from one ONTAP environment.

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Run critical applications in AWS

Now, you can consume NetApp ONTAP in AWS just as you’ve used it on premises. With access to NFS, SMB, and iSCSI protocols, ONTAP’s full capabilities are available wherever data resides. Build applications faster with multiprotocol support, hybrid caching, and bursting capabilities.

Migrate any workload

Manage data more effectively

As the only cloud-native service to support both AWS and NetApp APIs, you can set up and manage your data from the AWS Management Console or NetApp BlueXP^™ control plane. Take advantage of the data protection and management services that have made NetApp famous.

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Protect your data

Reduce backup times and instantly restore data with zero-impact NetApp Snapshot™ copies. Get built-in automation to replicate copies across AWS Availability Zones (AZs) and gain control with cost-effective, incremental-forever, block-based backups. 

Simplify your backup strategy

Benefits for cloud-first enterprises

Speed up applications with high performance and highly available cloud storage. FSx for ONTAP exceeds data center capabilities while surpassing the benefits of traditional, cloud-native options.

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Broadly accessible file storage

Discover the full capabilities, APIs, and data management features of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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Calculate your cost savings

FSx for ONTAP supports all of ONTAP’s storage features, including data deduplication, compression, compaction, thin provisioning, and more. Automatically reduce storage consumption for general-purpose workloads—typically delivering savings of 50%.

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Fully managed cloud storage

Eliminate administrative overhead. With FSx for ONTAP, it’s easy to deploy and manage multiprotocol shared file storage in the cloud. Setup, provisioning, replication, daily backups, failover, failback, and ONTAP software updates are managed by AWS.

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Migrate on-premises file shares to AWS

Use SnapMirror^® replication to efficiently migrate from on-premises ONTAP and transfer NAS data from third-party aging filers with Cloud Sync. Once in AWS, gain hybrid cloud visibility of your infrastructure to identify cloud waste and halt ransomware.

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Explore the capabilities

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP delivers the full ONTAP experience, combined with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. Check it out with AWS’ Bill Vass and NetApp’s Anthony Lye.

Take a tour of FSx for ONTAP

What does it mean to extend the capabilities of the ONTAP file system to a native AWS managed service? What does this offer storage admins and enterprise architects? AWS’ Adrian De Luca and The CTO Advisor’s Keith Townsend break it down.

Centrally manage hybrid cloud storage

NetApp BlueXP provides an intuitive control plane for NetApp’s cloud data services. With BlueXP, you can manage any ONTAP-based storage solution, including FSx for ONTAP.

FSx for NetApp ONTAP improved the agility of our mission-critical ERP application by enabling us to refresh our data 10x faster. We also increased financial and HR job performance by 3x and reduced our application recovery time and recovery point (RTO/RPO) objectives from hours to minutes.

Norm Nadeau, VP of Site Reliability Engineering, Pearson

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Extend your impact

Take your workloads to the next level with integrated solutions from NetApp.

Centralize management

Discover, deploy, and manage storage and cloud data services in a unified hybrid cloud experience from the BlueXP control plane.

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Get complete visibility

Monitor, remediate, and optimize resources and apps across your entire technology stack with BlueXP health and observability services using NetApp Cloud Insights.

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Consolidate distributed files

Cut both costs and risk by consolidating hundreds of distributed file servers into a single AWS footprint with NetApp Global File Cache, which lets your global enterprise smoothly tap into the power of your AWS-resident data.

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Enhance governance and compliance

Improve data governance with the BlueXP discovery, mapping, and classification service using NetApp Cloud Data Sense.

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Next steps

Customers in every global industry rely on NetApp, our network of channel partners, and teams of cloud data specialists. Together, we’ll make it easy for you to adopt fully managed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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Create your file system and optimize with a few clicks. Access and run your apps with flexible shared storage.

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Get full details

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can be the catalyst to speed your move to AWS and run cloud-native applications. Explore the features and implementation details.

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Contact us

We’d love to help you unlock the best of cloud with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and our enterprise data services.

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