# AWS cuts minimum capacity for FSx Lustre Intelligent-Tiering by 75%

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS reduced the minimum provisioned throughput and metadata performance for new FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering file systems by 75%, lowering the entry requirements for high-performance computing and machine-learning workloads with small initial datasets.

Minimum throughput falls from 4,000 to 1,000 MBps, while minimum metadata performance falls from 6,000 to 1,500 operations per second. The lower settings are available wherever AWS offers the storage class. Intelligent-Tiering targets workloads mixing frequently and infrequently accessed data that do not require consistent SSD-level performance.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/fsx-lustre-intelligent-tiering-lower-throughput/)

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Published: 2026-11-12T23:32:00.466Z
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Retrieved: 2026-11-13T03:04:01.712Z
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