Using Amazon FSx with your on-premises data repository
You can use Amazon FSx to process data stored in your on-premises data repository with in-cloud compute instances. Amazon FSx supports access over AWS Direct Connect and VPN, enabling you to mount your file systems from on-premises clients.
To use Amazon FSx with your on-premises data
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Create a file system. For more information, see Step 1: Create your Amazon FSx for Lustre file system in the getting started exercise.
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Mount the file system from on-premises clients. For more information, see Mounting Amazon FSx file systems from on-premises or a peered Amazon VPC.
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Copy the data that you want to process into your Amazon FSx file system.
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Run your compute-intensive workload on in-cloud Amazon EC2 instances mounting your file system. If you want to, you can periodically copy intermediate results to your data repository.
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When you're finished, copy the final results from your file system back to your on-premises data repository, and delete your Amazon FSx file system.
