The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.
Amazon EFS is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies. Amazon EFS is a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability.
We typically use EFS as “Shared Folder” for applications in distributed environments. For more extensive rights concepts, we also offer the possibility to provide a dedicated NFS server based on EC2.
