Amazon FSx
Amazon FSx provides fully managed file systems with the native compatibility and feature sets for workloads that require shared file storage. FSx supports four widely-used file systems including NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre, delivering high performance and low latency access to data.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon FSx the way a machine reads it — 41 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon FSx scores 62.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Amazon FSx
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon FSx. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon FSx File Systems API
Operations for creating and managing file systems
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Amazon FSx API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Fsx Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Amazon Fsx Finops
FINOPSFeatures 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Multiple File System Types
Choose from Lustre, Windows File Server, NetApp ONTAP, and OpenZFS based on workload requirements.
High Performance
FSx for Lustre delivers hundreds of GB/s throughput and millions of IOPS for HPC and ML workloads.
Native Compatibility
Fully compatible with each file system protocol — SMB for Windows, NFS for Linux, POSIX for Lustre.
Automatic Backups
Daily automatic backups stored in Amazon S3 with user-initiated backup support for disaster recovery.
Multi-AZ Deployment
FSx for Windows File Server and ONTAP support Multi-AZ configurations for high availability.
Data Repository Integration
FSx for Lustre integrates natively with Amazon S3 for transparent data import, export, and auto-release.
Encryption at Rest
All file systems are encrypted at rest using AWS KMS with customer-managed key support.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Fsx Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Amazon FSx API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon FSx API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Backup
JSON SCHEMAFileSystem
JSON SCHEMAAmazon FSx File System
JSON SCHEMASnapshot
JSON SCHEMAStorageVirtualMachine
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 5
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Amazon Fsx Backup Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fsx File System Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fsx Snapshot Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fsx Storage Virtual Machine Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fsx Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
HPC and ML Training
Use FSx for Lustre for fast scratch storage in high-performance computing and distributed ML training jobs.
Windows Workloads
Migrate on-premises Windows file shares to FSx for Windows File Server with Active Directory integration.
Enterprise NAS
Use FSx for NetApp ONTAP for enterprise NAS with SnapMirror replication, FlexClone, and multi-protocol access.
DevOps and CI/CD
Use FSx for OpenZFS for fast NFS shared storage in development, testing, and containerized workflows.
Media Processing
Process high-resolution video and media assets using FSx for Lustre with S3 data repository tiering.
Database Backup Storage
Use FSx for Windows File Server or ONTAP as high-performance backup targets for Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon FSx — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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