NetApp has announced the general availability of its Ontap storage for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to NetApp, that will help customers make savings of 20-50% in TCO by being able to scale cloud storage independently of compute.
The offering is Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap (FSxN) certified and supported as a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS. NetApp said this is the first third-party storage provision for such workloads in AWS.