Amazon FSx for OpenZFS customers

Amdocs uses Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to create high-performance cloud-scale database copies while reducing capacity utilization by 60%.

Amdocs is a leading software & services provider to communications & media companies, providing innovative solutions, intelligent operations & delivery .

Challenge: Amdocs faced operational, cost, and management challenges when creating database copies.Amdocs needed instantaneous, high-performance (>10GB/s of throughput) copies of these databases for creating reports, test/dev, and data warehouse processes. In addition, they needed database copies for production support, performance testing, and other operational tasks.

Solution: Amdocs reduced costs and operational complexity with the simplicity and speed of snapshots/cloning of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, to create hundreds of Stand-By Databases for downstream reporting, data warehouses, and testing. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS supports Multi-AZ, eliminating the need to implement database-level replication for the downstream database copies. FSx for OpenZFS is designed to deliver the maximum performance even when the data access is coming from a single client, as is the case for relation databases. Amdocs has the ability to configure capacity, throughput, and IOPS independently to optimize cost and pay only for what they use with FSx for OpenZFS. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS built-in compression reduces cost for high-performance databases. Combined with the efficiency of OpenZFS thin snapshots and clones, Amdocs was able do more with less and reduce their overall storage cost.

Astera Labs eliminates complexity and experiences instantaneous high performance storage in their semiconductor environment with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.

Astera Labs, Inc. is a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions that remove performance bottlenecks throughout the data center.

Challenge: Astera Labs’ was using a self-managed OpenZFS NFS server, and was limited by the total amount of storage that its deployed architecture could support. Capacity expansion was a challenge as it hit per instance EBS limits. At the same time, Astera Labs’ resources were needed to manage the storage solution, including backup/restore, which took up time and resources that could be better spent on its core competencies.

Solution: With Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, Astera Labs experienced easy setup, consistent high-performance, and access to virtually unlimited storage capacity. The company is now able to launch filesystems of 100s of terabytes in a matter of seconds, while also gaining increased throughput resulting in faster simulation times, easier backup/restore, and overall ease of management.

Life is Tech! leverages Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to improve performance by 90% to provide an effective learning environment for over 500,000 middle and high school students.

Life is Tech! is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.

Challenge: Life is Tech! has many small files optimized for each student’s individual learning which requires a storage system with low latency, high performance, and redundancy. The performance and operational burden of file storage had become an issue to support the ever-increasing number of users and learning content.

Solution: By using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, a fully managed service, it was possible to achieve both stable performance and low operational load even when a lot of students are accessing their own small files.  

Rev uses Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to train speech recognition machine learning (ML) models faster, while reducing operational costs by up to 30%.

Rev is a leader in automatic speech recognition artificial intelligence, providing transcription, captioning, and subtitle services to over 170,000+ customers across industries. Rev processes terabytes of audio data using a powerful GPU compute cluster, which relies on high-performance shared file storage.

Challenge: Rev was looking for a fully managed high-performance file storage solution to reduce the operational complexity of managing and maintaining its own NFS file servers.

Solution: Using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, Rev deploys fully managed, cost-effective NFS-accessible storage that seamlessly replaces its self-managed NFS servers. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides consistent low-latency storage to accelerate its ML training workloads, providing over 70% more throughput than its self-managed storage while improving visibility with integrated Amazon CloudWatch metrics.

Hatch uses Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to deliver interactive high-resolution 4K gaming experiences to players and spectators around the world.

Hatch Entertainment is a cloud-native gaming company offering mobile-optimized game streaming technology that enables players to launch high-quality games on demand – no downloads, updates, or installations required.

Challenge: To deliver this user experience, Hatch needed a high-performance, cost-effective shared storage solution to power its 4K cloud gaming technology for players and spectators around the world.

Solution: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS allows Hatch to deliver simple Network File System (NFS) storage for games running on a variety of platforms. FSx for OpenZFS delivers the fast, low-latency access needed to launch these experiences for Hatch gamers on demand. Using AWS DataSync, Hatch replicates their FSx for OpenZFS storage across different AWS Regions to scale its platform to gamers globally.

Vela Games reduces build times for Game Developers by 60% with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.

Vela Games is a fully independent game studio on a mission to unite gamers around the world through play. They are making engaging, cooperative games that put players first.

Challenge: Vela Games uses BuildGraph, an Unreal Engine tool, to coordinate build jobs and accelerate the build times that were bottlenecking their game development process. To support this process, they needed a simple, high performance shared storage solution to share and persist data assets across a variety of Windows- and Linux-based build jobs.

Solution: With FSx for OpenZFS, Vela Games can deliver high performance, low latency, and fully managed NFS storage to accelerate its mission-critical build jobs. FSx for OpenZFS provides the cross-platform access (Windows/Linux) that Vela needed, while supporting advanced data management capabilities (like point-in-time snapshots and cloning) to enable Vela to further parallelize and accelerate its builds in the future.