Running High Performance Applications with Amazon FSx

We updated the content for this course on January 25th 2023 to fix an issue within the course, we apologize for any inconvenience. 

Welcome to the Running High Performance Applications with Amazon FSx course! In this course, you learn about implementing Amazon FSx file systems when building and running compute and data-intensive applications. First, you review the “WHY” and “WHEN” of choosing a particular type of Amazon FSx file system for a given set of performance and application requirements. Then you examine the unique performance characteristics of different file systems, settings, and properties that influence performance, and how to map your workload’s performance needs to the right file system option.

      •    Course level: Intermediate

      •    Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

      •    Explain the benefits of using Amazon FSx for high performance applications in the cloud.

      •    Discuss the different AWS compute, container, and other services that you can use with Amazon FSx.

      •    Differentiate the performance characteristics of the Amazon FSx offerings.

      •    List features that determine an Amazon FSx file system’s performance.

      •    Identify which Amazon FSx file system is best for a set of workload requirements.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Cloud architects

      •    Storage and cloud operations administrators

      •    Storage business development managers

      •    Data engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed: 

      •    Getting Started with AWS Storage course

      •    General knowledge of AWS and cloud computing

Course outline

Section 1: Overview

      •    Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

      •    Lesson 2: Course Introduction

Section 2: Introduction to Amazon FSx

      •    Lesson 3: Amazon FSx Overview

      •    Lesson 4: What Is Amazon FSx?

      •    Lesson 5: Amazon FSx Benefits for High Performance Cloud Applications

      •    Lesson 6: Amazon FSx File Systems

      •    Lesson 7: Amazon FSx and AWS Compute Service Integrations

      •    Lesson 8: Knowledge Check

Section 3: FSx Performance and Data Management

      •    Lesson 9: Performance and Data Management Overview

      •    Lesson 10: Amazon FSx Performance Impacts

      •    Lesson 11: Performance with Scale-up File Systems

      •    Lesson 12: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Performance

      •    Lesson 13: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Performance

      •    Lesson 14: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Performance

      •    Lesson 15: Amazon FSx for Lustre Performance

      •    Lesson 16: Knowledge Check

Section 4: Selecting an Amazon FSx File System

      •    Lesson 17: Selecting an Amazon FSx File System Overview

      •    Lesson 18: Choosing an Amazon FSx File System

      •    Lesson 19: Workload Use Cases

Section 5: Resources

      •    Lesson 20: Additional Resources