Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Score

7.5 out of 10

Reviews

5 Reviews

Is EFS worth the trouble?

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as part of a server cloud allowing for the implementation of quick and easy access between two different web applications (WordPress and Discourse)

Pros

Allows for seamless transfer of user experience from one application to another
Allows for storage of user-uploaded images to be addressed over different servers and applications
EFS is scalable so it can be implemented from a small userbase set up through enterprise applications

Cons

Compatibility issues are always something to be on the lookout for before implementation of new technologies and systems
It's difficult for new employees to grasp the technology coming in from small server cloud applications. It could stand to be simpler.
Sharing of files sometimes doesn't go always as expected.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Vice-President in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

EFS is the best option as Shared File System

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EFS as a shared file system for a WebServer application, it's easy to mount of linux servers and all of them can read or write to the same storage. Excellent response time and no need to provision storage beforehand.

Pros

No limit on IOPS
No limit on storage size
Can optimize cost by using infrequent access tier

Cons

Integration with Windows instances is not supported

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to shared information across a fleet of servers your vest option is EFS.

Iván García

Consultant in Professional Services at Datum, S.A. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Great Tool for Read and Write Scalability

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Elastic File System is being used in certain departments of the organization. This is a great tool as it handles the scalability of the filesystem so that multiple instances of EC2 can write and monitor the updates simultaneously. The capacity in this can be easily adjusted and no overhead management is needed.

Pros

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.

Cons

For multiple small files, EFS performance might get degraded.
Doesn't have a great compatibility with Redhat 6.
Bit expensive

Likelihood to Recommend

This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Excellent Tool for sharing file between EC2 Content

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 7, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon EFS provide you scalable elastic file system with ease of integration of your past setup.My company already using multiple Amazon services AWS cloud so Amazon EFS is very helpful.

I am from analytics team but I have used this in project with out Tech engineering team.

We need large file system where rdbms and other resource is not helpful and we start using elastic file system.

It is started from project level and now it used completed department not company level but our department which consist of engineering team, analytics team and category product managers. System are now using Amazon EFS

Pros

Easy Integration
No problem like in RDBMS
Cloud script to maintain EFS dynamically

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

When are API is exposed to limited user previous system is working fine. Amazon EFS comes into picture when we have more number user for internal API and even one user has multiple instance which required file need to maintained dynamically and session out problem need to be resolved.

Amazon EFS help in making system scalable and highly reliable. now no more high user and session timeout issue exist

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

EFS is simple, highly-available NFS for your cloud environment.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EFS for back-end storage for our larger systems and platforms. It adequately solves the business problem of file-as-a-service. Rather than spin up a few VMs and employ something like DRBD, EFS will provide a highly-available, scalable NFS export that can be mounted in multiple availability zones. It has just enough options to make it robust and enterprise-ready while keeping it simple to set up in just a few clicks.

Pros

EFS is easily made high-availability.
EFS is simple to implement.
EFS uses native NFS file-sharing protocol.

Cons

EFS could be made highly-available across regions.
EFS could be made with a better on-premise extension than Cloud Gateway.
EFS could be made to support CIFS/SMB.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works well as run-of-the-mill NFS that is managed as a service rather than a server. It works anywhere NFS is usable.

Chris Saenz

Lead System Engineer in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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