Editions
FlexFS is available in two editions. The Community Edition is free of charge and provides a single volume with up to 5 TiB of storage and 5 million files. The Enterprise Edition adds unlimited volumes, end-to-end encryption, proxy groups, and more. Both editions provide full POSIX compliance, support all four cloud storage backends, and include the analyze, dedup, find, and manage CLI utilities. Volume configuration via configure.flexfs is Enterprise-only.
Edition Comparison
Section titled “Edition Comparison”| Feature | Community | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Core Filesystem | ||
| POSIX-compliant file access | ✓ | ✓ |
| S3, GCS, Azure Blob, OCI backends | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACLs, extended ACLs, xattrs | ✓ | ✓ |
| File locking (fcntl / flock) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hard links, symlinks, special files | ✓ | ✓ |
Time-travel mounting (--atTime) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Local on-disk caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Local on-disk writeback caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block prefetching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-update | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volumes | ||
| Number of volumes | 1 | Unlimited |
| Maximum capacity | 5 TiB | Unlimited |
| Maximum files (inodes) | 5,000,000 | Unlimited |
| Price | Free | Contact sales, or pay as you go through AWS Marketplace |
Volume configuration (configure.flexfs) | — | ✓ |
| Volume quotas (blocks, inodes) | — | ✓ |
| Configurable retention (time-travel history) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volume retirement | — | ✓ |
| Volume tokens with mount-path scoping | — | ✓ |
| Security | ||
| TLS (auto-generated or custom certs) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Token-based authentication | ✓ | ✓ |
| Root squashing | ✓ | ✓ |
| End-to-end encryption (AES-256) | — | ✓ |
| Server-side encryption (S3 SSE) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Proxy Groups | ||
| Proxy groups (CDN-like block caching) | — | ✓ |
| Multi-region proxy deployment | — | ✓ |
| Hybrid cloud writeback caching | — | ✓ |
| Automatic lowest-latency proxy selection | — | ✓ |
| Kubernetes | ||
| CSI driver (static provisioning) | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSI driver (dynamic provisioning) | — | ✓ |
| Utilities | ||
| analyze.flexfs (volume analysis) | ✓ | ✓ |
| dedup.flexfs (file deduplication) | ✓ | ✓ |
| find.flexfs (filesystem search) | ✓ | ✓ |
| manage.flexfs (host management) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operations | ||
| Systemd integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| fstab integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prometheus metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Usage metering and billing | — | ✓ |
| License management | — | ✓ |
Choosing an Edition
Section titled “Choosing an Edition”Choose Community if you need a single shared filesystem backed by cloud object storage, with full POSIX compliance, at no cost. Community supports up to 5 TiB of data and 5 million files, making it ideal for development environments, proof-of-concept deployments, and small-to-medium workloads that don’t require end-to-end encryption or proxy groups.
Choose Enterprise if you need multiple volumes, end-to-end encryption, proxy groups for edge caching or hybrid cloud deployments, dynamic Kubernetes provisioning, or fine-grained access control via volume tokens with mount-path scoping. Enterprise requires a license key from Paradigm4.