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Before you deploy a cluster, verify that the following requirements are satisfied:
APEX File Storage for AWS requires an AWS subscription. Visit the Amazon website for more details of AWS subscription pricing.
You need the AWS permissions listed in Appendix A: required AWS permission for deployer user to deploy clusters in AWS.
Ensure that the instance types are available in your AWS availability zone. See the AWS documentation Find an Amazon EC2 instance type for details. Starting from OneFS 9.7, APEX File Storage for AWS supports the following instance types:
Note: You must run a Proof of Concept (PoC) if you intend to use m5d.24xlarge or i3en.12xlarge EC2 instance types. For details, contact your Dell account team.
AWS provides EBS encryption capability for each EBS volumes. The encryption is finally transparent to OneFS software. Therefore, when creating an EBS volume, you can choose to enable encryption, and you can select the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key that will be used for encryption, either AWS managed keys or customer managed keys. This key management allows you to control who can access the encrypted data and provides additional flexibility in key management.
APEX File Storage for AWS requires two different subnets.
Note: IPv6 is not currently supported.
The AWS Command Line Interface v2 (AWS CLI v2) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. You should install and configure AWS CLI in advance if you intend to use AWS CLI for deploying AWS resources.