FSx for Windows File Server versus S3
Learn how FSx for Windows File Server differs from S3.
| FSx for Windows File Server | S3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | NAS |
Web Service |
| Interface | SMB |
REST API |
| Accessibility | EC2, On-Premises |
Anywhere |
| Latency | Medium |
High |
| Throughput | Hundreds of GB/s |
Very High |
| Durability | Unspecified (probably >99.8%) |
99.999999999% |
| Availability | 99.9% |
99.99% |
| Replication | Multi-AZ (optional) |
Multi-AZ (default), Multi-Region (optional) |
| Backups/Snapshots | Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) |
n/a |
| Storage Costs (GB/month) | $0.23 |
$0.023 |