Item: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

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 and Cons

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

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

Return on Investment

Positive: Highly scalable solution, more than 6 month for bug fixing exist only product improvement is there
Positive : Dynamic file maintenance to make sure no session time out issue
Negative: Nothing as such

Alternatives Considered

Kibana

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 with old system . easy integration and api development.

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Kibana

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

Excellent Tool for sharing file between EC2 Content

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)