India, Dec. 4 -- NetApp has introduced a capability that connects Amazon Web Services AI and analytics services directly with data stored on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and on-premises ONTAP systems. The integration uses Amazon S3 Access Points for FSx for ONTAP, allowing file data to be accessed through the S3 API without moving it out of existing environments. The aim is to simplify workflows for enterprises running AI and analytics workloads across hybrid cloud deployments.

With this capability, AWS' AI, ML, serverless compute and analytics services can read and write to file data stored on FSx for ONTAP as if the file systems were native S3 buckets. This applies to on-premises data as well, due to ONTAP's built-in replication feature...