MayaScale on AWS Marketplace

Deploy a 2-node MayaScale active-active storage cluster from the AWS Marketplace using CloudFormation.

Prerequisites

• An AWS account with appropriate IAM permissions
• An existing EC2 key pair for SSH access
• A VPC with subnets in your target availability zone(s)

Step 1: Find MayaScale in AWS Marketplace

1. Go to AWS Marketplace
2. Search for MayaScale
3. Click Continue to Subscribe, then Continue to Configuration
4. Select your region and click Continue to Launch
5. Choose Launch CloudFormation

Step 2: Configure CloudFormation Stack

Deployment Configuration

Parameter	Description	Default
Cluster Name	Unique cluster identifier	—
Performance Policy	Tier selection (basic through ultra, zonal or regional)	zonal-medium
Key Pair	EC2 key pair for SSH access	—

Performance Tiers (AWS)

MayaScale on AWS uses NVMe instance storage families (i3en, i4i):

Tier	Instance Type	NVMe Devices	Capacity
Basic	i4i.xlarge	1	937 GB
Standard	i3en.2xlarge	2	5 TB
High	i3en.6xlarge	4	15 TB
Ultra	i3en.12xlarge	8	30 TB

Each tier is available in zonal (same-AZ) and regional (cross-AZ) variants.

Network Configuration

Parameter	Description	Default
VPC	Target VPC	Default VPC
Availability Zone	Primary AZ	Auto

Step 3: Deploy

1. Review configuration
2. Acknowledge IAM capabilities
3. Click Create Stack

Deployment takes 5–10 minutes.

Post-Deployment

Stack Outputs

Navigate to CloudFormation → Stacks → Outputs:

• Node1ExternalIP / Node2ExternalIP — public IPs
• VIPAddress — primary VIP for client connections
• SSHCommands — ready-to-use SSH commands
• PerformancePolicy — selected tier
• ClientVolumes — NVMe-oF connection endpoints

SSH Access

ssh -i ~/.ssh/YOUR_KEY.pem ec2-user@<NODE1_PUBLIC_IP>

Connect NVMe-oF Client

From a client EC2 instance in the same VPC:

# Install NVMe CLI
sudo yum install nvme-cli

# Discover targets
nvme discover -t tcp -a <VIP_ADDRESS> -s 4420

# Connect
nvme connect -t tcp \
  -n nqn.2019-05.com.zettalane:mayascale-data-node-1 \
  -a <VIP_ADDRESS> \
  -s 4420

# Verify
nvme list

Web UI Access

ssh -L 2020:localhost:2020 -i ~/.ssh/YOUR_KEY.pem ec2-user@<NODE1_PUBLIC_IP>
# Then open http://localhost:2020

What Gets Deployed

• 2 EC2 instances with NVMe instance storage
• Security group for SSH and NVMe-oF traffic
• IAM roles and instance profiles
• Placement group (zonal deployments, on-demand only)
• VIP using secondary private IPs for HA

Troubleshooting

# Cloud-init logs
tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

# Check NVMe devices
nvme list
lsblk

# Cluster status
mayacli cluster status