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What is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a storage system that provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud with easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows to create and configure file systems quickly and easily.

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a storage system that provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud with easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows to create and configure file systems quickly and easily.
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Vishal C.
VC
IT Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Amazon web service cloud good for all of you"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

AEFS is easy to use and simple interface allow us to create a file system quickly and easily. We can share the file storage, automatically and instantly scales, low in cost, highly available and durable and so much secure for your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

When we store the data in big size, we have purchase the plans of the aws recommend to us. That is why some of the people are not using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Victoria L.
VL
Application Systems Analyst
Telecommunications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to use"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Like most all AWS components, I like how it is so easy to set up and connect an EFS mount to your VMs that you create within your VPC. The additional snapshots functionality is a big plus too. The documentation is straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Have not run into anything I dislike or have any issues yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SN
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"EFS Needs windows support"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Serverless and not having to worry about hardware. Easy of management. Central management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Would like to see support for windows operating system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"EFS Solved our capacity problems"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

We lov enot having to worry about adding hard drives to a server when we need more storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Dislike the teired performance model, where we need to have more stored on EFS to get better IO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SM
CEO
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Perfect eleastic storage"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

So fairly easy to setup and scale.the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

There nothing much around this service that i havent really come to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NK
cloudops
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"nice platform"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

nfs like feature which enables ease of use and helps to complete tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

there should be feature to auto increase the volume space Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking
CC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"EFS is great for expanding storage!"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Automatically increases in size as you need storage without downtime or replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

If you have an application that will pull data from the EFS drive often you may run out of burst credits. This will require you reach out to AWS to get an extension. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
CM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"EFS is awesome"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS allowed us to scale reads to levels that no other system would match. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

When you delete files from EFS it can take hours to delete files that took minutes to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Shared Storage"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Able to share file system across ec2 instances for shared access to files and directories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Having no SLA for EFS. If the application requires to have low latency with shared storage there is no direct way to increase SLA for the shared file system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"When multiple instances need shared storage"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Used it once in an Elastic Beanstalk deployment. It was very easy to set up and get started with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

File throughput was not fast enough for our use-case as throughput was tied to amounts of GB's that you stored. We only used 1GB and did not get a good throughput. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Return on Investment

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