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

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 and Cons

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.

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

Return on Investment

This tool is responsible for providing efficiency in multiple aspects.
It has a positive impact on the business outcomes.
Because of this tool we are having positive impact on customer retention.

Key Insights

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

Yes

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

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

Yes

Other Software Used

AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudHSM, AWS CloudTrail

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.

Great Tool for Read and Write Scalability

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)