Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports managing file shares via PowerShell, enabling storage administrators to automate migration, synchronization, and ongoing management of file shares on Amazon FSx file systems.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now enables storage administrators to enforce in-transit encryption on all connections to a file system.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now allows you to create file systems as small as 32 GBs.

Today, we’re reducing the price for AWS DataSync by 68% to $0.0125 per-gigabyte transferred by the service. DataSync is an online data transfer service that automates and accelerates copying data between Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems.

You can now schedule AWS DataSync transfers between NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). DataSync task scheduling enables you to periodically execute a transfer task to detect and copy changes from your source storage system to the destination. Customers use DataSync to migrate data to AWS, to transfer data to the cloud for analysis and processing, and to replicate data to AWS for archiving or business continuity. 

AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from AWS for Tape Gateway, and for reading data and listing directories for File Gateway, providing you faster access to data managed through these gateways. 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in all commercial AWS regions except China regions. With this launch, Amazon EFS is now also available in the regions below:

• Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
• Europe (Stockholm)
• Middle East (Bahrain)
• South America (São Paulo)  

You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 5 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and AWS GovCloud (US-East). 

Amazon FSx is announcing two new features that make it easier to deploy shared Windows storage for High Availability (HA) Microsoft SQL Server deployments: support for Continuously Available (CA) file shares and support for smaller file systems.

Starting today, customers that use AWS Support services (Developer, Business, and Enterprise levels) will now have these expected costs included in their monthly cost forecasts when using AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets. With this enhancement, customers no longer need to manually adjust their expected monthly costs to include premium support costs.