# Accessing file systems
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Using Amazon FSx, you can burst your compute-intensive workloads from on-premises into the Amazon Web Services Cloud by importing data over Direct Connect or VPN. You can access your Amazon FSx file system from on-premises, copy data into your file system as-needed, and run compute-intensive workloads on in-cloud instances.

In the following section, you can learn how to access your Amazon FSx for Lustre file system on a Linux instance. In addition, you can find how to use the file `fstab` to automatically remount your file system after any system restarts.

Before you can mount a file system, you must create, configure, and launch your related AWS resources. For detailed instructions, see [Getting started with Amazon FSx for Lustre](getting-started.md). Next, you can install and configure the Lustre client on your compute instance.

**Topics**
+ [Lustre file system and client kernel compatibility](lustre-client-matrix.md)
+ [Installing the Lustre client](install-lustre-client.md)
+ [Mounting from an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance](mounting-ec2-instance.md)
+ [Configuring EFA clients](configure-efa-clients.md)
+ [Mounting from Amazon Elastic Container Service](mounting-ecs.md)
+ [Mounting Amazon FSx file systems from on-premises or a peered Amazon VPC](mounting-on-premises.md)
+ [Mounting your Amazon FSx file system automatically](mount-fs-auto-mount-onreboot.md)
+ [Mounting specific filesets](mounting-from-fileset.md)
+ [Unmounting file systems](unmounting-fs.md)
+ [Working with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances](working-with-ec2-spot-instances.md)