Sunday, June 5, 2022

FSx Lustre Root Squash


 Amazon FSx for Lustre is a service to provide the cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable file storage for compute workloads. 

Recently, AWS started supportingroot squash, which is an administrative feature adds an additional layer of file access control on top of the current network-based access control and POSIX file permissions that FSx for Lustre provides. 

Using the root squash feature, the user can restrict root level file system access from clients that access an FSx for Lustre file system as root.


As an IT administrator, it provides the users root access on their compute instances to perform privileged operations such as changing system configurations or installing and removing software. 

Root squash feature is available at no additional cost on all Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for Lustre is available. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/LustreGuide/what-is.html.

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