Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Alternatives (January 2026)

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.