The recent release of a commercial version of the Lustre* parallel file system running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) was big news for business data centers facing ever expanding data analysis and storage demands. Now, Lustre, the predominant high-performing file system installed in most of the supercomputer installations around the world, could be deployed to business customers in a hardened, tested, easy to manage and fully supported distribution in the cloud. Proven to scale up to extreme levels of storage performance and capacity as measured in tens or even hundreds of petabytes, with shared and accessible to tens of thousands of clients, Lustre combines high throughput with high availability using vendor-neutral server, storage and interconnect hardware coupled with various distributions of Linux. In this Guide, we take a look at what Lustre on infrastructure AWS delivers for a broad community of business and commercial organizations struggling with the challenge of big data and demanding storage growth. Guide to Big Data Business Solutions in the Cloud