Document history for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
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API version: 2018-03-01
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Latest documentation update: May 8, 2025
The following table describes important changes to the Amazon FSx for OpenZFS User Guide. For notifications about documentation updates, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
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Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central). For more information, see Availability by Amazon Web Services Region. | May 8, 2025 |
FSx for OpenZFS now supports lower throughput capacity options for the Intelligent-Tiering storage class | The Intelligent-Tiering storage class now supports provisioning 160 MBps of throughput capacity or greater. Intelligent-Tiering provides fully elastic storage with an optional SSD cache for low-latency access to frequently accessed data. With Intelligent-Tiering, you are billed for the data you store, depending on the size of your dataset, and do not need to specify a file system size at creation. For more information, see Intelligent-Tiering. | April 28, 2025 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess Amazon managed policy | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess policy to add the
| February 25, 2025 |
Support added for dual-stack VPC interface endpoints for Amazon FSx | You can now create dual-stack VPC interface endpoints for Amazon FSx with both IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses and DNS names. For more information, see FSx for OpenZFS and interface VPC endpoints. | February 7, 2025 |
Support added for dual-stack API endpoints | The Amazon FSx service API for creating and managing file systems have new dual-stack endpoints. For more information, see API endpoints in the Amazon FSx API Reference. | February 7, 2025 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess Amazon managed policy | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policy to add the
| February 7, 2025 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added. | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia). For more information, see Availability by Amazon Web Services Region. | January 2, 2025 |
FSx for OpenZFS now offers the Intelligent-Tiering storage class. | You can now create FSx for OpenZFS file systems with the Intelligent-Tiering storage class. Intelligent-Tiering provides fully elastic storage with an optional SSD cache for low-latency access to frequently accessed data. With Intelligent-Tiering, you are billed for the data you store, depending on the size of your dataset, and do not need to specify a file system size at creation. For more information, see Intelligent-Tiering. | December 1, 2024 |
FSx for OpenZFS now offers the Single-AZ (HA) deployment type. | You can now create FSx for OpenZFS file systems using the Single-AZ (HA) deployment type, which offers high availability within a single availability zone. For more information, see Availability and durability. | July 9, 2024 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added. | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Canada West (Calgary). For more information, see Deployment type availability. | May 3, 2024 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added. | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), Amazon GovCloud (US-West), Amazon GovCloud (US-East), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). For more information, see Deployment type availability. | March 11, 2024 |
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports up to 400,000 IOPS for Single-AZ 2 file systems | Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports up to 400,000 IOPS for Single-AZ 2 file systems. For more information, see Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Performance. | January 17, 2024 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess, AmazonFSxReadOnlyAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess, and AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy Amazon managed policies | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess, AmazonFSxReadOnlyAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess,
and AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy policies to add the
| January 9, 2024 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess Amazon managed policies | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the
| December 20, 2023 |
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now offers cross-region and cross-account data replication | You can now use on-demand data replication with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to securely transfer data across file systems in any Amazon Account and Amazon Web Services Region. For more information, see On-demand data replication. | December 20, 2023 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess Amazon managed policies | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the
| November 26, 2023 |
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now offers on-demand data replication | You can now use on-demand data replication with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to securely transfer data across file systems in the same Amazon Account and Amazon Web Services Region. For more information, see On-demand data replication. | November 26, 2023 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added. | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). For more information, see Deployment type availability. | November 16, 2023 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess Amazon managed policies | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the
| November 14, 2023 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added. | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) Region, Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Middle East (UAE). For more information, see Deployment type availability. | November 9, 2023 |
Update to AmazonFSxFullAccess policy. | Amazon FSx added new permissions to allow Amazon FSx to manage network configurations for FSx for OpenZFS Multi-AZ file systems. For more information, see Amazon managed policies for Amazon FSx. | August 9, 2023 |
FSx for OpenZFS now offers the Multi-AZ deployment type. | You can now use Multi-AZ deployment for FSx for OpenZFS to create file systems with high availability that span across multiple availability zones. For more information, see Availability and durability. | August 9, 2023 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy Amazon managed policy | Amazon FSx updated the | July 24, 2023 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess Amazon managed policy | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess policy to remove the | July 13, 2023 |
Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess Amazon managed policy | Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policy to remove the | July 13, 2023 |
Support added for using the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service container storage interface (CSI) driver for FSx for OpenZFS. | The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver provides a CSI interface that allows Amazon EKS clusters to manage the life cycle of
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems and volumes. For more information, see
Using FSx for OpenZFS with Amazon container services and
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver | June 30, 2023 |
Support added for a new generation Single-AZ 2 deployment type. | You can now specify file systems with 10 GBps maximum throughput, 350,000 maximum IOPS, and data access from a new NVMe L2ARC read cache. For more information, see Amazon FSx for OpenZFS performance. | November 28, 2022 |
Support added for restoring backups to file system's with increased storage capacity and throughput capacity | You can now specify a storage capacity equal to or greater than the original file system's storage capacity when restoring an FSx for OpenZFS backup to a new file system. For more information, see Restoring backups. | September 29, 2022 |
Additional Amazon Web Services Region support added | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Stockholm) Amazon Web Services Regions. | September 29, 2022 |
Support added for SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS scaling | You can now increase the SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS for existing FSx for OpenZFS file systems as your storage and IOPS requirements evolve. For more information, see Managing SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS. | May 31, 2022 |
Amazon FSx is now integrated with Amazon Backup | You can now use Amazon Backup to back up and restore your FSx file systems in addition to using the native Amazon FSx backups. For more information, see Using Amazon Backup with Amazon FSx. | May 18, 2022 |
Amazon Web Services Region support added | FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Amazon Web Services Regions. | April 19, 2022 |
Support added for using Amazon DataSync to migrate files to your FSx for OpenZFS file systems. | You can now use Amazon DataSync to migrate files from existing file systems to FSx for OpenZFS file systems. For more information, see How to migrate existing files to FSx for OpenZFS using Amazon DataSync. | April 5, 2022 |
Support added for Amazon PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints. | You can now use interface VPC endpoints to access the Amazon FSx API from your VPC without sending traffic over the internet. For more information, see Amazon FSx and interface VPC endpoints. | April 5, 2022 |
Support added to unset, or turn off volume storage capacity quotas and reservations. | You can now unset or turn off a volume's storage capacity quota and reservation settings . For more information, see Volume properties. | February 28, 2022 |
Support added for customizing a volume's ZFS record size. | You can now set the ZFS record size on a per volume basis to improve performance for specific workflows. For more information, see Volume properties. | February 28, 2022 |
Support added for LZ4 data compression. | You can now use LZ4 data compression in addition to Z-Standard data compression on a per volume basis. For more information, see Volume properties. | February 28, 2022 |
Support added for full-copy volumes | You can use a snapshot to create an FSx for OpenZFS full-copy volume. A full-copy volume is initialized with the same data as its source snapshot, but is a fully independent writable copy. For more information, see Managing FSx for OpenZFS volumes. | February 2, 2022 |
FSx for OpenZFS is now generally available | FSx for OpenZFS for OpenZFS is a fully managed file storage service that makes it easy to move data residing in on-premises ZFS or other NFS file servers to Amazon without changing your application code or how you manage data. It offers highly reliable, scalable, performant, and feature-rich file storage built on the open-source OpenZFS file system. | November 30, 2021 |