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Hello Simon Caruana,
Thank you for your feedback. It’s true that you can manually increase the storage capacity of the Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, as described in the AWS documentation. However, there is no automatic “Dynamically Allocate” feature that handles this for you without intervention.
This capability indeed allows for increasing storage as needed, but this operation must be triggered manually, or you can set it up with monitoring and automation, as described in the option: Create an Amazon CloudWatch Alarm to monitor the FreeStorageCapacity metric of the file system. Write an AWS Lambda Function to increase the capacity of the Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system using the update-file-system command. Utilize Amazon EventBridge to invoke this Lambda function when the metric threshold is reached. This option uses Amazon CloudWatch Alarms, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EventBridge to automate this process and prevent manual operations.
So while the manual increase of storage capacity is possible, the correct option provides an automated solution, making it the best choice to ensure seamless scaling and prevent capacity issues in the future.
I hope this helps! Let us know if you need any further assistance.
Cheers,
JR @ Tutorials Dojo
