A county emergency-management office runs a burst HPC-style flood model on AWS that needs extremely high-throughput parallel file access for scratch and working datasets. Which storage service best fits this high-performance compute pattern?
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Short Explanation
Flood models chew through parallel scratch like a fire hose, not a filing cabinet. FSx for Lustre is the AWS high-performance file system built for HPC-style bursts—fast, parallel, and happy next to compute. Glacier is cold archive, remounted EBS isn’t a shared parallel FS, and crippling EFS won’t give Lustre-class throughput.
Full Explanation
Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance parallel file system commonly used as scratch or working storage for HPC and analytics workloads. For a municipal flood model that needs high-throughput concurrent access from compute nodes, FSx for Lustre aligns with Task 3.1 high-performing storage selection. Cold object archives, single EBS volumes, and intentionally constrained EFS modes do not meet parallel HPC scratch requirements.