EFS

Elastic File System

• Managed NFS (network file system) that can be mounted on 100s of EC2

• EFS only works with Linux EC2 instances in multi-AZ

• Highly available, scalable, expensive (3x gp2), pay per use, no capacity planning

• Storage class that is cost-optimized for files not accessed every day

• Up to 92% lower cost compared to EFS Standard

• EFS will automatically move your files to EFS-IA based on the last time they were accessed

• Enable EFS-IA with a Lifecycle Policy

• Example: move files that are not accessed for 60 days to EFS-IA

• Transparent to the applications accessing EFS

Last updated 8 months ago