Document history for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS - FSx for OpenZFS

Document history for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

  • API version: 2018-03-01

  • Latest documentation update: July 9th, 2024

The following table describes important changes to the Amazon FSx for OpenZFS User Guide. For notifications about documentation updates, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

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FSx for OpenZFS now offers the Single-AZ (HA) deployment type.

You can now create FSx for OpenZFS file systems using the Single-AZ (HA) deployment type, which offers high availability within a single availability zone. For more information, see Availability and durability.

July 9, 2024

Additional AWS Region support added.

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Canada West (Calgary). For more information, see Deployment type availability.

May 3, 2024

Additional AWS Region support added.

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). For more information, see Deployment type availability.

March 11, 2024

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports up to 400,000 IOPS for Single-AZ 2 file systems

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports up to 400,000 IOPS for Single-AZ 2 file systems. For more information, see Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Performance.

January 17, 2024

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess, AmazonFSxReadOnlyAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess, and AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy AWS managed policies

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess, AmazonFSxReadOnlyAccess, AmazonFSxConsoleReadOnlyAccess, and AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy policies to add the ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc permission. For more information, see Amazon FSx updates to AWS managed policies.

January 9, 2024

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess AWS managed policies

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the ManageCrossAccountDataReplication action. For more information, see Amazon FSx updates to AWS managed policies.

December 20, 2023

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now offers cross-region and cross-account data replication

You can now use on-demand data replication with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to securely transfer data across file systems in any AWS Account and AWS Region. For more information, see On-demand data replication.

December 20, 2023

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess AWS managed policies

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the fsx:CopySnapshotAndUpdateVolume permission. For more information, see Amazon FSx updates to AWS managed policies.

November 26, 2023

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now offers on-demand data replication

You can now use on-demand data replication with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS to securely transfer data across file systems in the same AWS Account and AWS Region. For more information, see On-demand data replication.

November 26, 2023

Additional AWS Region support added.

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). For more information, see Deployment type availability.

November 16, 2023

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess AWS managed policies

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess and AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policies to add the fsx:CopySnapshotAndUpdateVolume, fsx:CopySnapshotAndUpdateVolume permission. For more information, see Amazon FSx updates to AWS managed policies.

November 14, 2023

Additional AWS Region support added.

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) Region, Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Middle East (UAE). For more information, see Deployment type availability.

November 9, 2023

Update to AmazonFSxFullAccess policy.

Amazon FSx added new permissions to allow Amazon FSx to manage network configurations for FSx for OpenZFS Multi-AZ file systems. For more information, see AWS managed policies for Amazon FSx.

August 9, 2023

FSx for OpenZFS now offers the Multi-AZ deployment type.

You can now use Multi-AZ deployment for FSx for OpenZFS to create file systems with high availability that span across multiple availability zones. For more information, see Availability and durability.

August 9, 2023

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy AWS managed policy

Amazon FSx updated the cloudwatch:PutMetricData permission in the AmazonFSxServiceRolePolicy. For more information, see Amazon FSx updates to AWS managed policies.

July 24, 2023

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess AWS managed policy

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxFullAccess policy to remove the fsx:* permission and add specific fsx actions. For more information, see AmazonFSxFullAccess policy.

July 13, 2023

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess AWS managed policy

Amazon FSx updated the AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policy to remove the fsx:* permission and add specific fsx actions. For more information, see AmazonFSxConsoleFullAccess policy.

July 13, 2023

Support added for using the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service container storage interface (CSI) driver for FSx for OpenZFS.

The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver provides a CSI interface that allows Amazon EKS clusters to manage the life cycle of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems and volumes. For more information, see Using FSx for OpenZFS with AWS container services and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI Driver on GitHub.

June 30, 2023

Support added for a new generation Single-AZ 2 deployment type.

You can now specify file systems with 10 GB/s maximum throughput, 350,000 maximum IOPS, and data access from a new NVMe L2ARC read cache. For more information, see Amazon FSx for OpenZFS performance.

November 28, 2022

Support added for restoring backups to file system's with increased storage capacity and throughput capacity

You can now specify a storage capacity equal to or greater than the original file system's storage capacity when restoring an FSx for OpenZFS backup to a new file system. For more information, see Restoring backups.

September 29, 2022

Additional AWS Region support added

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions.

September 29, 2022

Support added for SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS scaling

You can now increase the SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS for existing FSx for OpenZFS file systems as your storage and IOPS requirements evolve. For more information, see Managing SSD storage capacity and provisioned IOPS.

May 31, 2022

Amazon FSx is now integrated with AWS Backup

You can now use AWS Backup to back up and restore your FSx file systems in addition to using the native Amazon FSx backups. For more information, see Using AWS Backup with Amazon FSx.

May 18, 2022

AWS Region support added

FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Regions.

April 19, 2022

Support added for using AWS DataSync to migrate files to your FSx for OpenZFS file systems.

You can now use AWS DataSync to migrate files from existing file systems to FSx for OpenZFS file systems. For more information, see How to migrate existing files to FSx for OpenZFS using AWS DataSync.

April 5, 2022

Support added for AWS PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints.

You can now use interface VPC endpoints to access the Amazon FSx API from your VPC without sending traffic over the internet. For more information, see Amazon FSx and interface VPC endpoints.

April 5, 2022

Support added to unset, or turn off volume storage capacity quotas and reservations.

You can now unset or turn off a volume's storage capacity quota and reservation settings . For more information, see Volume properties.

February 28, 2022

Support added for customizing a volume's ZFS record size.

You can now set the ZFS record size on a per volume basis to improve performance for specific workflows. For more information, see Volume properties.

February 28, 2022

Support added for LZ4 data compression.

You can now use LZ4 data compression in addition to Z-Standard data compression on a per volume basis. For more information, see Volume properties.

February 28, 2022

Support added for full-copy volumes

You can use a snapshot to create an FSx for OpenZFS full-copy volume. A full-copy volume is initialized with the same data as its source snapshot, but is a fully independent writable copy. For more information, see Managing FSx for OpenZFS volumes.

February 2, 2022

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now generally available

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is a fully managed file storage service that makes it easy to move data residing in on-premises ZFS or other NFS file servers to AWS without changing your application code or how you manage data. It offers highly reliable, scalable, performant, and feature-rich file storage built on the open-source OpenZFS file system.

November 30, 2021