--- title: Amazon FSx for Lustre Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon FSx for Lustre Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon FSx for Lustre works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Amazon FSx for Lustre Reviews & Product Details Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed file system that is optimized for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing, machine learning, and media data processing workflows. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon FSx for Lustre Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-fsx-for-lustre/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-fsx-for-lustre/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP") NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 4.5/5(34) ](https://www.g2.com/products/netapp-cloud-volumes-ontap/reviews) [ ![LucidLink](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "LucidLink") LucidLink 4.5/5(782) ](https://www.g2.com/products/lucidlink/reviews) [ ![Veeam Data Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Veeam Data Platform") Veeam Data Platform 4.6/5(748) ](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-fsx-for-lustre/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. 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AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/30/2026 "High-Performance FSx for Lustre with Seamless Amazon S3 Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Amazon FSx for Lustre delivers high-performance parallel file storage designed for HPC, machine learning, media rendering, and large-scale analytics workloads. I particularly like its ability to process millions of IOPS with low latency while integrating seamlessly with Amazon S3. The service automatically provisions managed Lustre clusters without requiring storage administration. Performance is excellent for distributed compute environments such as SageMaker training jobs, HPC clusters, and large Spark workloads where throughput is critical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? FSx for Lustre is purpose-built for high-performance computing and is not intended for general-purpose file sharing. It also requires familiarity with parallel file systems to maximize performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? FSx for Lustre accelerated compute-intensive AI and analytics workloads requiring extremely high storage throughput. Example: Machine learning training datasets stored in Amazon S3 were linked directly to FSx for Lustre. SageMaker training jobs accessed the data through the Lustre filesystem, reducing data loading times and significantly improving overall training performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prateek A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prateek A.") PA Prateek A. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/30/2022 "The best shared storage system" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? AWS is without a doubt the best cloud platform and this product of AWS is indeed the best shared storage system. The loading speed is excellent and you can directly pull the data in your S3 buckets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? The user interface can be more friendly and easy to use. It needs technical knowledge, anyone without it won't be able to operate it correctly. Looks good except for that part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? It's solving the big problem of shared space on the cloud. AWS is all in one cloud solution and with FSx you can just use the storage system and pay only for what you use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankit S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit S.") AS Ankit S. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/19/2022 "easy secure and trustworthy" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Easy to use access is very easy management of data is easy sharing data is easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Nothing to dislike in the product, it is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/14/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/16/2022 "Effective and Cheap Storage Solution" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? I really appreciate the multitude of options that it gives me for file storage types. It also works great for situations where the same file needs to be accessed by multiple people at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? The learning curve to teaching new people how to use this program is fairly steep. It is not the most user-friendly system I have ever used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon FSx for Lustre: It's a good solution to file management at a fair price, just make sure it works for your operating system and don't shrug off the learning curve it takes to learn it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? File storage solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Benny V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Benny V.") BV Benny V. Purchase Manager at Bioscience Ltd Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/17/2022 "Good and cheapest Solution For Storage Of Files" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? It Gives Multiple Options Like Storage Types, complete workloads thoroughly packaged, Windows application, automation, etc, Its one of the best in the industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? It isn't very easy for beginners, not suitable for financial products, sometimes very slow, please bring new features to be used for financial support. speed part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon FSx for Lustre: Go for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? Storage for workloads, and has multiple options for our user / Office files where it is effortless to access. Yes because of the software we are very productive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") CF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/6/2022 "Amazon FSx for Lustre" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Amazon FSx for Lustre is good for use cases where same files or folders needs to be accessed from various systems simultaneously. This is fully managed, hence ther is no need to manage underlying file system and reduces management efforts and cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Amazon FSx for Lustre capacity can not scale automatically and must be increased manually. Amazon FSx for Lustre also can not be used for Windows Operating systems. There should be hybid support model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon FSx for Lustre: Amazon FSx for Lustre is good for use cases where multiple servers need to access same file system simultaneously and does not need file locking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? We used Amazon FSx for Lustre for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads where multiple servers accessed data, processed and stored back results in the same file system - Amazon FSx for Lustre. We also integrated the same with Amazon S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DC David C. Customer Service Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/15/2022 "Easy and Effective to Launch and Run" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? What I like the most about this tool is that you can use it for workloads where speed matters, such as high-performance computing or video processing. Also, it offers fast storage to keep up with my computer. The speed is simply incredible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? I have not encountered any errors or gaps in this tool. It works perfectly for me. Perhaps the deployment options could have some areas of improvement but nothing to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Amazon FSx for Lustre for SSD Storage for low latency and IO{S-Intensive workloads. Our day-to-day work improved by its effectiveness and response time with high-performance computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![mathapelo m.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "mathapelo m.") MM mathapelo m. C Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/13/2021 "makes one life easier" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? I love how one can actually load their workload on it and how fully it is managed also love how the storage is monitored and the efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? For me personally its the speed limit and how slow the response can be at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? full capacity and also the storage that it brings to one cause you can always overlaod your work at the fatest and easiest way .Most definetly business has improved alot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arunkumar K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arunkumar K.") AK Arunkumar K. Technical Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/16/2022 "Amazon FSx for Lustre" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Fully managed shared storage is reducing the workloads. Low cost and performance with a range of deployment options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Not supporting Windows operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? We are running our Machine learning applications with high-performance shared storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Lyly T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lyly T.") LT Lyly T. A Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/25/2021 "Amazon fsx" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon FSx for Lustre? The price is reasonable and it processes work fast. Love the efficiency it adds! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon FSx for Lustre? Was a little complicated for some employees to use. Especially the ones who are beginners in tech. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon FSx for Lustre: Read the manuals that amazon sends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon FSx for Lustre solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick assessible cloud storage with great security which is important to us too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon FSx for Lustre? 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