FSx for Windows File Server storage

FSx for Windows File Server storage provides optimized storage performance for your XProtect archives. For high-level redundancy, you can configure FSx in a multiple availability zones where video archive is replicated synchronously within each individual availability zone and between the two availability zones.

If you have retention times shorter than one week, you may need to allocate more FSx storage capacity than needed to secure a sufficient IOPS baseline. For more information, see the XProtect on AWS White Paper.

To use FSx for Windows File Server storage, take the following consideration for FSx:

• When you have defined the storage size and throughput capacity, you cannot change them.
• The share size is defined in steps of one GiB with a minimum size of two TiB and maximum size of 64 TiB.
• Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory.
• You must have an AD user service account that runs the recording server.
• Requires ports used in AWS for SMBv3 in your VPC Security Groups.

You can create multiple FSx shares and use them on your EC2 Windows server instance running the recording server to increase archiving storage capacity.

When scheduling XProtect archiving times, make sure the archiving job does not overlap with the AWS FSx half-hour weekly maintenance window or configure the size of disk 1 to accommodate possible postponed archiving when configured in a single availability zone.

For more information on FSx for Windows file server, see Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.