Amazon FSx for Lustre vs BeeGFS
Amazon FSx for Lustre
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BeeGFS
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| Figure | Amazon FSx for Lustre | BeeGFS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 2 |
| Spec score · Distributed File System Software | 7.9 (#10) | 8.2 (#7) |
| Founded | 2006 | 2014 |
| Security | All file systems are encrypted at rest; in-transit encryption is available in select regions, and VPC security groups can control network access. | BeeGFS repositories and packages are digitally signed, and its documentation describes TLS encryption for some network communication by default. |
Plans
Amazon FSx for Lustre
- Intelligent-Tiering (elastic) storage classPrice not published
- SSD or HDD (provisioned) storage classPrice not published
In their own words
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Lustre has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
BeeGFS
BeeGFS is a parallel file system for high-performance computing, AI, and other data-intensive workloads. Its user-space services run over filesystems such as ext4, XFS, and ZFS, with metadata spread across multiple servers. It is designed to scale performance and capacity from small clusters to enterprise systems with thousands of nodes. Native client and server components are available for Linux across x86_64, AMD, ARM, OpenPower, and other CPU architectures. BeeGFS 8 Remote Storage Targets synchronize with S3 object storage, while BeeGFS Copy supports parallel copying among BeeGFS and other locally mounted file systems. System-wide monitoring and Grafana dashboards provide views of performance and system health. Hive Enterprise adds high availability, metadata and file-content mirroring, quota enforcement, and tiered storage pools. The Community Edition is free up to 1 PB of total storage and is for self-supported end users; its BeeOND use is limited to five compute nodes contributing storage. Capacity beyond 1 PB requires a subscription license. BeeGFS is available for Linux, API, and self-hosted deployment.