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Murali D.
MD
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS is super efficient in providing excellent services that covers all the pillars of robust infra."
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Reliability, Robustness and Reachability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Billing and the cost calculations could have been more clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great Service for file management in cloud."
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

There are some great features of the elastic file system which I want to highlight:

EFS is a very simple elastic file system over the cloud.

It is set and forget architecture means you can just do the setting efforts for one time and then use it.

It is easy to create and mount the file system on ec2 machines.

It uses NFS protocol.

It is built to scale as the demand, when you need more space it is scaleable, so you can put petabytes of data and it wont affect your application that is using the files.

Very simple interface from where you can manage your EFS drive.

It provides shared file system so your ec2 can share a single EFS.

Different classes are available to choose as per need/ demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This is a great service for its purpose. I do not have any dislikes in this service as it is file storage. For object storage, there are some other services in Amazon web services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
UB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon EFS - Managed Network File System can be mounted on many EC2 instances"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon EFS works with EC2 instances in Multi-AZ and it's highly available & scalable. Users can control incoming flow to EFS by using security groups. It's compatible with Linux-based AMI. It can grow up to a Petabyte-scale network file system automatically based on the business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As of now, there are no dislikes and downsides for this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santanu J.
SJ
Platform Security Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent Product"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Over all features and ease of use and excellent service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Nothing everything is good nothing to complain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
AP
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good experience"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Aws services availability is maximum compared to any other cloud service provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Aws cloudformation designer template need to be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great performance!"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Performance with minimal down time is great and they have stringent SLAs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Need some more maturity on the infrastructure side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It is very good for cloud storage and very much recommended"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Its is very compactible with any system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

I not find any dislike in the product right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William S.
WS
William Sikkens
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon EFS is a good choice"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Implementation is easy if you understand the AWS environment. As a user of AWS having this work by design with everything else is a huge plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You need a working understand of AWS to implement EFS. It is designed to be used along-side other AWS products like EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris S.
CS
Lead System Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solves HA for network file system quite well"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Easy to set up, highly available, network storage. Solves the problem that services like Gluster and DRBD take many steps to solve. EFS handles it with a couple of commands for provisioning and mounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I understand the technical requirements would be difficult, but it would be awesome if an EFS could be made highly available between regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel P.
DP
Autónomo
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The new bet of AWS. EFS revolution."
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It offers a great advantage over the management of multiple servers, the advanced management of files to download and upload. Traffic management and calls to web services hosted in different compartments. The SAI of the AWS goes further and the problems of implementation are in charge, leaving only the capacity of the application to the users.

Products such as EC2 and S3 are used for active file management, but do not allow the freedom of the infrastructure that AWS Elastic File System allows. We only focus on application applications for implementations and simple administration when we publish the versions on the server.

AWS Elastic File System is extremely fast. At the time of the implementations, the application allows us to build a set of tools and administration of bases for the administration and storage of files. Its "provisioning" is important, which allows us to maintain traceability of the version changes and to know the average loading and unloading size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Economic. That is why many people have stopped working with EFS, including acquaintances. Since 1TB (usually the space needed) exceeds 300USD. Therefore, currently the most commercial product called S3 allows a similar storage at a very low price, clear with some observed disadvantages.

The use of Apache for internal file management, permissions, security, backup, recovery, sessions. Consider that another user has an advanced server and a more advanced and more robust server, which can be connected to the internal or external network and can be. do to open a global server, depending on the optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

9 months

Average Discount

10%

Perceived Cost

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