Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	Score 7.2 out of 10	N/A	The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.	$0.04 per GB

Pricing

Editions & Modules

US East & West Region: $0.043
per month per GB (One zone)
Europe (Ireland) Region: $0.046
per month per GB (One zone)
Asia Pacific & Canada Region: $0.047
per month per GB (One zone)
Africa (Cape Town) Region: $0.054
per month per GB (One zone)
AWS GovCloud (US-East): $0.056
per month per GB (One zone)
US East & West Region: $0.08
per month per GB (Standard)
Asia Pacific & Canada Region: $0.09
per month per GB (Standard)
Europe (Ireland) Region: $0.09
per month per GB (Standard)
Africa (Cape Town) Region: $0.10
per month per GB (Standard)
AWS GovCloud (US-East): $0.11
per month per GB (Standard)

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There is no minimum fee or setup charge. You pay only for the storage you use, for read and write access to data stored in Infrequent Access storage classes, and for any provisioned throughput. Amazon EFS offers four storage classes: two standard storage classes, including Amazon EFS Standard and Amazon EFS Standard-Infrequent Access (EFS Standard-IA), and two One Zone storage classes, including Amazon EFS One Zone and Amazon EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Considered Both Products	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Verified User Vice-President Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Both S3 and EBS have their place in implementations but it does matter in looking at technology solutions from a total viewpoint of marrying various projects and systems and then weighing the advantages (and disadvantages) of EFS against them. Incentivized Helpful? Iván García Consultant Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) EFS is easier to configure, no need for Active Directory. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) If your Team/Company already using AWS and you are building a scalable solution which require API building which connect to a database consist numerous file, then Amazon EFS is definitely must go to tool. which enable the productivity with less maintenance highly compatibility … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Chose Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) EFS is essentially an NFS export offering, just simplified and accessible through all the automation and scalability that AWS offers. It provides high-available replicated data in multiple AZs with is akin to something like DRBD, but without having to manage the layer of … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to setup Pro Ec2 instances Pro High availability
Top Cons	Minus Highly available Minus Small scale Minus Small files

Features

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) 8.8 5 Ratings 8% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.05 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.05 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	10.04 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	4.04 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.55 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.03 Ratings
Operating system support	9.55 Ratings
Security controls	10.05 Ratings
Automation	10.04 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS While the idea is to utilize it enterprise wide; it sometimes doesn't work well in smaller applications and that causes slowdowns and impacts productivity. Also when evaluating EFS versus EBS - one needs to look at cost as EFS is a lot more expensive to implement and run so you need to weigh cost benefits of both systems and choose the best for you. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS This is very easy to setup and has a great performance. As per the name, Elastic grows as your data grows. We can run multiple EC2 instances. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS For early age start it would be costly Not necessary for small scale system, but very beneficial for system which have high TPS and huge user base Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Amazon AWS The documentation is sufficient for setting up and it is basic NFS for mounting so not much support is required. I have not had any issues to warrant a request with AWS support. Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS EFS is easier to configure, no need for Active Directory. Incentivized Iván García Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Cost is always a paramount issue when looking at ROI It is fast and if that's what you need for your implementation - you probably will not find a better solution Expertise in EFS is sometimes hard to come by so it's best to look at your employee's ability to grasp this technology. Otherwise, it's a pretty steep learning curve. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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