Microsoft Azure → Amazon Web Services
AWS equivalent of Azure Elastic SAN
The closest AWS equivalent of Azure Elastic SAN is Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
About Azure Elastic SAN
| Provider | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | A managed SAN that pools capacity and performance across volume groups and volumes, served over iSCSI to VMs, AKS (through Azure Container Storage), and Azure VMware Solution. LRS or ZRS. |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
AWS mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Managed SAN (pooled iSCSI block storage) | Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Partial match |
Block storage(1)
Managed SAN (pooled iSCSI block storage) Partial match
Microsoft maps FSx for NetApp ONTAP iSCSI or NVMe/TCP LUNs to Azure Elastic SAN. Elastic SAN pools capacity and performance across many iSCSI volumes, while ONTAP is a full storage OS that also serves file protocols.
- Scope. Elastic SAN is block-only (iSCSI), with volume groups for policy and network rules. FSx for ONTAP serves iSCSI and NVMe/TCP LUNs alongside NFS and SMB, with ONTAP snapshots, SnapMirror, and FlexCache.
- Consumers. Elastic SAN volumes connect to VMs, AKS (through Azure Container Storage), and Azure VMware Solution. FSx for ONTAP LUNs connect to EC2 and EKS, among others.
- On Azure, Azure NetApp Files is the ONTAP-based option, but it serves files (NFS and SMB), not LUNs.