Using Amazon FSx with your on-premises data - FSx for Lustre
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Using Amazon FSx with your on-premises data

You can use FSx for Lustre to process your on-premises data with in-cloud compute instances. FSx for Lustre supports access over Amazon Direct Connect and VPN, enabling you to mount your file systems from on-premises clients.

To use FSx for Lustre with your on-premises data

  1. Create a file system. For more information, see Create your FSx for Lustre file system in the getting started exercise.

  2. Mount the file system from on-premises clients. For more information, see Mounting Amazon FSx file systems from on-premises or a peered Amazon VPC.

  3. Copy the data that you want to process into your FSx for Lustre file system.

  4. Run your compute-intensive workload on in-cloud Amazon EC2 instances mounting your file system.

  5. When you're finished, copy the final results from your file system back to your on-premises data location, and delete your FSx for Lustre file system.