Benefits of FSx for Windows File Server

Highly durable and available

Provide highly available, high performance storage to your Windows applications with full SMB support.

Protect your data

Strengthen data protection with encryption, file access auditing, and automated backups.

Increase performance

Increase application performance with sub-millisecond latencies and high throughput.

How it works

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server, and delivers a wide range of data access, data management, and administrative capabilities.

Use cases

Migrate Windows file servers to AWS

Move Windows-based file servers to AWS while maintaining application compatibility.

Reduce SQL Server deployment cost

Run highly available Microsoft SQL Server database workloads without the need for SQL enterprise licensing. 

Simplify virtual desktops and streaming

Store user profile data on shared, persistent storage accessible from Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0.