Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

loteck 7 years ago |

Pricing link: https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/pricing/

Storage capacity: $0.130 per GB-month

Throughput capacity (configurable): $2.200 per MBps-month

Backup storage: $0.050 per GB-month

amaccuish 7 years ago |

Shame they didn't use Samba like they did for their simple directory service. Would have been great to have more eyes on the Samba code.

blattimwind 7 years ago |

SMB-Share-as-a-Service

hsk0823 7 years ago | |

It amazes me it took this long to make this happen and that Azure still doesn't have this as a feature

aerodog 7 years ago |

can't tell if the AWS mafia is going after HN or...

txcwpalpha 7 years ago | |

Yea, I currently count 10 articles about Amazon on the front page, with 8 of them being posted by the same user [1], who happens to be an Amazon employee. The keynote is happening, but it still seems excessive.

I've also noticed that a few other Amazon employees are popping up in the threads promoting AWS products, which seems a little shady as well.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mcrute

dang 7 years ago | | |

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

txcwpalpha 7 years ago | | |

Does it make a difference if the person who is doing the posting of all of those articles is an Amazon employee? Seems like a clear case of attempted astroturfing at worst, and definitely a conflict of interest at best.

I know there's not really a "solution" to it, and Amazon should definitely be allowed to announce their products on HN, but I think the readers have a right to know that the people promoting these products do benefit from said products being adopted.

dang 7 years ago | | |

I doubt that it makes a big difference. Someone's going to post these no matter what, and it's the upvotes that put them on the front page.

For me the issue is, of the dozen+ announcements, which are actually the interesting ones? I have no idea, but we're not going to leave a dozen of them on the front page to find out.

txcwpalpha 7 years ago | | |

Does HN have the ability to merge threads? I hate to suggest more work for you, but it seems like a good situation for a "megathread" type of situation for all AWS reinvent-related announcements to all be grouped into. It doesn't really matter, but it could help avoid the clutter, both from the posts themselves, and from the comments decrying them.

saurik 7 years ago | |

Welcome to the AWS re:Invent keynote?

dschuetz 7 years ago |

Another Amazon Ad?