A connected graph G is called strongly Menger (edge) connected if for any two distinct vertices x, y of G, there are min{deg G (x), deg G (y)} vertex(edge)-disjoint paths between x and y. In this paper, we consider strong Menger (edge) connectedness of the augmented k-ary n-cube AQ n,k , which is a variant of k-ary n-cube Q k n . By exploring the topological proprieties of AQ n,k , we show that AQn,3 for n ≥ 4 (resp. AQ n,k for n ≥ 2 and k ≥ 4) is still strongly Menger connected even when there are 4n − 9 (resp. 4n − 8) faulty vertices and AQ n,k is still strongly Menger edge connected even when there are 4n − 4 faulty edges for n ≥ 2 and k ≥ 3. Moreover, under the restricted condition that each vertex has at least two fault-free edges, we show that AQ n,k is still strongly Menger edge connected even when there are 8n − 10 faulty edges for n ≥ 2 and k ≥ 3. These results are all optimal in the sense of the maximum number of tolerated vertex (resp. edge) faults.