Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate file system performance for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Azure Managed Lustre is a managed, pay-as-you-go file system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. Simplify operations, reduce setup costs, and eliminate complex maintenance with a purpose-built managed service. Use with Azure services such as Azure HPC Compute, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Machine Learning.
High-performance distributed parallel file system delivering hundreds of GBps storage bandwidth and solid-state disk latency.
Seamless Lustre functionality, behaviors, and performance for HPC applications in the cloud without compatibility issues.
File system interoperation with Azure Blob Storage for optimal data placement, data processing, and cost management.
Simplified management of HPC workloads with the benefits of both Lustre and cloud services, available in most Azure regions.
Accelerate HPC jobs
With storage capable of reaching hundreds of GBps, scale up your compute clusters and finish jobs in a fraction of the time compared to existing IP storage services.
Do more with less
Azure Managed Lustre has the largest throughput capacity per TB available in Azure today. Size your storage just right without the need to overprovision capacity and overpaying to achieve the speeds you need.
Use with Azure CycleCloud and Azure Kubernetes Service
Scale out your file system storage in tandem with computes managed through CycleCloud. Rapidly modernize your applications and cloud-native workloads with seamless, secure file system storage. Connect to Azure Kubernetes Service using the container storage interface driver for Azure Managed Lustre.
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Pay-as-you-go pricing
Use Azure Managed Lustre quickly and easily, without infrastructure to set up. Do more with less by saving on setup time and costs, reducing manual maintenance.
Get started with an Azure free account
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Customers are already doing great things with Azure Managed Lustre
"HPC workloads require thousands of files to be read and written in parallel. Azure Managed Lustre provides extremely performant storage that keeps up with HPC compute, auto-syncs data with persistent blob storage, and its on-demand nature makes it very cost-effective."
Felipe Ayora: Director of Research and Advanced Computing, BizData
“The new Azure Managed Lustre file system is a real game changer. It accelerates HPC deployment of our software and eliminates the need to run persistent storage servers. Setup is simple, and parallel i/o performance is fast enough to support very high-throughput workloads.”
Bill Shea: CEO, Sharp Reflections
"Azure Managed Lustre is an outstanding file system that has been specifically crafted to meet the unique requirements of PETRONAS’ high performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. It delivers exceptional performance, providing high storage bandwidth and seamlessly integrating with essential Azure services."
Faizal B Zainol Alam: PETRONAS Digital General Manager
“Duke Clinical Research Institute was looking for a scalable solution for their high I/O needs to support their analytics tools serving clinical research. Azure Managed Lustre addressed that need with a simple deployment model allowing them to focus on providing value to their customers quickly. I see the effortless simplicity and power of AMLFS as the ultimate choice for high-speed shared storage, empowering your analytics tools with unrivaled simplicity and versatility for both immediate and long-term needs.“
Emilio Power: Research Analytics Lead, SAS System Architect, Duke Clinical Research Institute
“At Meteomatics, we rely on high performance computing (HPC) to run complex numerical weather prediction models, delivering accurate forecasts to our customers. By leveraging Lustre, a trusted file system in the HPC community, and the seamless deployment of LustreFS, we gain the high number of IOPS and throughput crucial for handling massive data volumes. Azure Managed Lustre accelerates our weather forecast simulations with a high spatial and temporal resolution, significantly reducing time-to-completion and enabling faster delivery of forecast data to our valued customers.“
Dr. Martin Fengler: CEO Meteomatics
Azure Managed Lustre resources and documentation
Documentation
Read the Azure Managed Lustre documentation.
High-performance computing
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