An AWS filesystem mountable in users Windows laptops
Is there a possibility of providing storage on AWS that would be easily mountable as an external mount in users' Windows laptops.
They are also wondering whether in such a kind of storage would it be possible to use ACL based permissions (or at least ROLE and/or LDAP based access). We tried FSx in the past but it wasn't supporting ACLs and wasn't mountable.
*One immediate idea was to have a look at the AWS File Gateway service in the AWS Storage Gateway family (https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/) especially the Amazon FSx File Gateway.
Is this the best option to suggest to the customer?*
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AWS File Gateway would be the best option as it does support SMB and can be joined to Active Directory to use domain authentication.
I assume your customer has an existing on-prem AD environment, and wants to use it to configure permissions.
Use Amazon FSx File Gateway if you need access to FSx for Windows File Server in your AWS network as well. You can configure FSx to work with on-prem AD. Do note that this requires network connectivity between FSx and on-premise AD DC (domain controller), which necessitates a site-to-site VPN or Direct Connect link between on-prem and AWS.
If your customers do not need FSx for Windows in their AWS environment, you may want to look at Amazon S3 File Gateway. Join your gateway to on-prem AD DC to activate Windows ACL. You do not need VPN connectivity between on-prem and AWS.
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