Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Reviews & Product Details - Page 12

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

Quick and Ease way to create file system. EFS is very fast in it, increase your storage as per your data. Low in price, highly durable and available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For new user it is difficult for them to use it. We have to purchase the upgrade version that was so costly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The service is easier to setup for windows file server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

latency to access files using CIFS protocol is slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ability to scale up quickly on file system shares where S3 doesn't work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The complexity at which to implement EFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Resilience and reliability, easy of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Wer had initially some performance problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Seamless data availability across EC2 nodes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

nothing at this time due to evaluation of EFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

easy to understand capabilities and performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

dificult to control and governance tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Once you know how to use it easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The uncertainty, since is new technology not much info out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Great site and easy-to-understand atmosphere Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I love everything about this site, I won't do without it anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Make it a bit cheaper and simplify interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Price and that the first time of using solution is not that easy. Once you start to get used of, it is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To start, EFS is unbelievably easy to use. The ability to mount many instances at once (apparently thousands - but not tried that many yet!) makes it such a flexible product for any multi server setup.

Most of AWS services are billed hourly, so is EFS. Originally I was only testing (knowing it was only costing a few pence) to test out vs using mounted drives to many EC2 instances, but ended up putting it straight into a current project since it fits perfectly as a use case.

EFS is fast, it has great throughput and it also scales as your storage size grows (in addition to burst allowances). I was also impressed that there was no need to "pre-provision" like you do on some AWS services like RDS (databases), so there is no wasted space and it is simply metered on the current storage use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main issue with EFS is the price, but to most people the price will not be an issue. Currently $0.30/GB, so 1TB storage is $307.20 per month which for storage (IMO) is overpriced compared to S3. It is very hard to compare the price on that basis though since the cost to setup your own Highly Available storage solution like this would be expensive to start.

The second and last dislike is the management of folder / file permissions. Considering you have multiple instances connecting it auto mounts as root. If you have an "apache" user on all your machines, they must all be using the same user id and group id - it will not use the username (i.e. apache) to perform permission checks. It is a slight pain but once working it is fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.