

To ensure compatibility with your applications, Amazon FSx supports all Windows versions starting from Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, and current versions of Linux (using the cifs-utils tool). Q: What instance types and OS versions can I access my file system from?Ī: By supporting the SMB protocol, Amazon FSx can connect your file system to Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream 2.0 instances.

Once you have created an AWS account, you can create a file system via the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and Amazon FSx API (and various language-specific SDKs). If you do not already have an AWS account, you can sign up for an AWS account. Q: How do I get started with FSx for Windows File Server?Ī: To use Amazon FSx, you must have an AWS account. It is associated with a storage amount and a throughput capacity, as well as a DNS name for accessing it.Ī file share is a specific folder (and its subfolders) within your file system that you make accessible to your compute instances – every file system comes with a default Windows file share, named “share” and you can create and manage as many other Windows file shares as you’d like. It’s where you store and access your files and folders. Q: What is an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system, and what is a file share?Ī: A file system is the primary resource in Amazon FSx. Amazon FSx File Gateway provides low-latency, on-premises access to fully managed file shares in the cloud.


Thousands of compute instances and devices can access a file system concurrently. To support a wide spectrum of workloads, Amazon FSx provides high levels of throughput and IOPS, and consistent sub-millisecond latencies.Īmazon FSx is accessible from Windows, Linux, and MacOS compute instances and devices. It is built on Windows Server, delivering a wide range of administrative features such as user quotas, end-user file restore, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how CLFS handles objects in memory.Q: What is Amazon FSx for Windows File Server?Ī: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable, and scalable file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Service Message Block (SMB) protocol. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, and then run a specially crafted application to take control over the affected system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver improperly handles objects in memory.
