Limits and quotas for Amazon FSx File Gateway - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Limits and quotas for Amazon FSx File Gateway

Quotas for Amazon FSx file systems

The following table lists minimum and maximum limits and quotas for Amazon FSx file systems.

Resource Limit per Amazon FSx file system
Maximum number of tags 50 tags
Maximum retention period for automated backups 90 days
Maximum number of backup copy requests in progress to a single destination Region per account. 5 requests
Minimum storage capacity for SSD file systems 32 GiB
Minimum storage capacity for HDD file systems 2,000 GiB
Maximum storage capacity for SSD and HDD file systems 64 TiB
Minimum throughput capacity 8 MBps
Maximum throughput capacity 2,048 MBps
Maximum number of Amazon FSx file shares 100,000

Recommended local disk sizes for your gateway

The following table recommends sizes for local disk storage for each Amazon Storage Gateway in your deployment.

Gateway Type Cache (Minimum) Cache (Maximum) Other Required Local Disks
FSx File Gateway 150 GiB 64 TiB
Note

You can configure one or more local drives for your cache up to the maximum capacity.

When adding cache to an existing FSx File Gateway, it is important to create new disks on your virtual host (hypervisor or Amazon EC2 instance). Do not change the size of existing disks if the disks have been previously allocated as a cache.