Amazon FSx for Lustre Delivers 16x Higher Metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering File Systems
AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports up to 192,000 metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering file systems, 16x the previous maximum.
Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems using the Intelligent-Tiering storage class now support up to 192,000 metadata IOPS, 16 times the previous maximum of 12,000.
AWS describes Intelligent-Tiering as the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage in the cloud, suited to workloads mixing hot and cold data.
Metadata IOPS determine how many files and directories can be created, listed, read, and deleted per second.
The higher limits target metadata-intensive machine learning research and HPC workloads and are available on new Intelligent-Tiering file systems in all Regions where the storage class is offered.