Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a fully managed, highly scalable, and highly available file storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
It provides a simple and scalable file storage solution for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.
Amazon EFS is built on a distributed architecture that automatically scales storage capacity and throughput as needed.
It is designed to provide highly durable and highly available file storage with low-latency performance.
Amazon EFS supports multiple file systems and protocols, including the industry-standard Network File System (NFS) version 4.1 protocol.
It also supports encryption at rest and in transit, and integrates with other AWS services such as
Amazon CloudWatch and
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
One of the main benefits of Amazon EFS is its ability to scale storage capacity and throughput automatically as your data grows, without the need for manual intervention.
This makes it ideal for use cases that require large-scale, highly available file storage, such as web serving,
content management,
data analytics,
and media processing.
Additionally, Amazon EFS is a fully managed service, which means that AWS takes care of the underlying infrastructure, including hardware and software updates, so you can focus on your applications and data.
