Amazon Elastic file system (EFS)¶
Pros and cons: - ✅ Multiple instances reading and writing simultaneously - 💡Linux file system - ✅ Regional resource: stores data in and across multiple Availability Zones. - ✅ automatically scales - ✅ HA - ✅ on-premises servers can access Amazon EFS using AWS Direct Connect.
💡 Compared to block storage and object storage, file storage is ideal for use cases in which a large number of services and resources need to access the same data at the same time.
Classes¶
- Standard storage classes
- EFS One Zone storage classes
- ideal for workloads that require the highest levels of durability and availability
- ideal for workloads such as development, build, and staging environments.