File Storage

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Basics

Understand the concepts and terminology of STACKIT File Storage.

Getting started

Learn about day to day operations with File Storage.

Release Notes

Discover what's new in STACKIT File Storage, including added features, bug fixes and deprecation notices.

STACKIT File Storage is a service that provides NFS Shares, enabling seamless file storage and sharing across multiple clients.

NFS shares are commonly used for centralized file storage, allowing multiple clients to access and share files over a network as if they were stored locally.

Features

• Creation of Resource Pools
• Creation of NFS Shares
• NFS Share Export Policy management
• Creation of Resource Pool Snapshots

Use cases

• Centralized and fully managed File Storage via NFS
• Physically and logically separated storage system (to Block/Backup/Object Storage)
• Scaling File Storage resources on demand
• Persistent Storage for containers (e.g. Kubernetes)

Latest updates

• announcement

  STACKIT File Storage - Beta release

  Jan 14, 2026

  We are happy to announce the Beta release of the STACKIT File Storage (SFS). This release empowers users to use NFS in a professional, fully managed Metro-setup.

  Key features

  • Simplicity: STACKIT File Storage can be easily and automatically provisioned via STACKIT Portal, API, SDK and Terraform and customized as required. It integrates seamlessly into the SNA customer environment at STACKIT.
  • Data Sovereignty and Reliability: To support data sovereignty, customers benefit from STACKIT File Storage as a “Metro” version of synchronous data storage across two availability zones
  • Security: The storage of the data in the STACKIT file storage is encrypted on the system side (system-wide) and thus increases data security.
  • Scaling: STACKIT File Storage offers powerful and individual options for scaling performance and capacity and enables simple and targeted changes as data volumes grow.
  • Functionality: With the snapshot functionality of STACKIT File Storage, point-in-time snapshots can be created, scheduled and restored as required. This can support business continuity requirements, for example.

  To activate the STACKIT File Storage, you need to create your first Resource Pool in an SNA-Project that has Routing Tables activated. You can find the overview of the new STACKIT service here: STACKIT File Storage, the Service Certificate is described here and we provided documentation for an easy start here: File Storage | Docs

  If you have any questions, our Help Center is always at your disposal.

File Storage Release notes