 We're back at storage day at Amazon in Boston. I'm Dave Vellante with theCUBE. Ed Naim is here. He's the general manager of FSX. Ed, welcome to theCUBE. Good to see you. Thanks for having me, Dave. Okay, so explain to me why you guys launched FSX for Windows file server. You know, why now? Well, we did it because customers asked us to do it. What customers told us was that they were tired of all of the effort and overhead in managing Windows file systems and Windows file servers on their own. Everything from routine maintenance like patching to provisioning, they just didn't want to have to do all of that heavy lifting. So they asked us for a simple solution, fully managed solution on the cloud. There's a lot of Windows data out there, a lot of data that's accessed from Windows computers. AWS is the cloud that has the most Windows workloads running on it. So it was a very natural ask for customers to ask us as they're moving their Windows workloads onto AWS to have a file system that's fully managed for them that can be accessed by those workloads. So it was actually very natural and unexpected ask from customers. You know, a lot of people may not know that, but it does kind of make sense. There's so much Windows out there. You're the cloud leader, so peanut butter and jelly. How do you see customers using FSX for Windows? Yeah, what's really exciting is they're using it for a really broad spectrum of workloads. So everything from traditional user shares and home directories to development environments to analytics workloads to video transcoding. So it's a very wide spectrum of workloads that are on the service. And we're continuing to see new types of workloads every day, which is really exciting. So we're here at Storage Day. What exactly is new around FSX for Windows file service specifically? Yeah, well, we've launched a number of capabilities this year, throughout the year. So one of the significant ones that we launched was the ability for customers to use their self-managed active directories and join their FSX file systems to those. So we now have two options. Customers can use a fully managed AWS, fully managed Active Directory or their own with FSX. We launched a number of capabilities around access from on-premises. For example, customers can now access, or when we launched it, we announced that they can now access their file systems over direct connections, over VPN, so they can access the Windows file systems from computers and from end users that are running on-premises. So quite a few announcements this year, those are just two examples. And we're really excited about really a slew of announcements and features that we're launching now. And I can get into those if you'd like. Yeah, give me some examples if you would. So one of the most common questions we've had from customers is, can we offer a native multi-AZ capability, multi-availability zone capability? So a lot of customers are running enterprise-grade workloads on FSX and they want to move more and more of those workloads onto AWS. And they don't want to have to manage the overhead of using something like the distributed file system or DFS replication between FSX file systems and different AZs. So we're launching a fully managed, super simple multi-AZ capability and that's a deployment options that customers will have in addition to what we already had, which was the single-AZ deployment option. Let me see some recurring themes when you talk to folks at Amazon and the announced services. It's the same sort of mantra, be able to reduce that heavy lifting, shift your focus to things that will add more value to your business, take advantage of these other services through these integrations that we're doing. I mean, it kind of feels like a no-brainer, but I'll give you the last word. I mean, is it, why is it, why should customers sell me on why I should move my data into the cloud? Yeah, I mean, we like to think of it as a no-brainer because we are fully managing everything for the customer. The service is built on top of Windows Server so it provides a fully compatible Windows file system and we've managed that fully for customers so you get complete compatibility with SMB, complete compatibility with NTFS file system, semantics and features. So it's a very simple move for customers to move their existing workloads onto the service and have it be fully managed. A couple of the other features that we're launching that I do want to mention are, we're launching data deduplication. We're launching a whole bunch of administrative capabilities like user quotas. We're extending our administrative CLI to do things like allow customers to create shares programmatically. So really a very exciting set of capabilities that we really think make this a no-brainer for customers. Well, that's another recurring theme as you guys, you drop prices and look at the Moore's Laws as prices continue to drop but the difference is Amazon, you make it transparent and if I use a service that's lower cost my bill goes down and then of course I end up using more because this is an elastic world so that's a good thing. But Ed, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Thank you. And the other thing is you guys are like Windows specialists, which is kind of ironic. Leader in Windows. Well, it really comes from what our customers are asking us for. So they see moving their Windows workloads as a first step to full modernization and being all in on the cloud. Great. Well, again, thanks Ed. Thank you. All right, and thank you for watching everybody. Right back, right after this short break Dave Vellante with theCUBE.