Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS

IBM Spectrum Scale™ addresses the needs of applications for which performance or performance-to-capacity ratio demands cannot be met by traditional scale-up storage systems.

IBM Spectrum Scale is deployed for many I/O-demanding enterprise applications that require high performance or scale. IBM Spectrum Scale provides various configuration options and access methods including traditional POSIX-based file access, and many features such as snapshots, compression, and encryption. This offering automates the deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS for users who require highly available access to a shared name space across multiple instances with good performance, without requiring an in-depth knowledge of IBM Spectrum Scale.

It is recommended that the IBM Spectrum Scale users subscribe to the IBM notifications for important updates on issues such as security vulnerabilities and other IBM Spectrum Scale fixes. You can subscribe to the IBM Spectrum Scale notifications from the My Notifications page.

Note: In IBM Spectrum Scale, the term Node is typically used to refer to any running instance of an operating system. The nodes deployed in this Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, so the term instance is used in the place of node.