Amazon EFS
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a fully managed, scalable, and elastic network file system (NFS) service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows multiple compute instances (like EC2, containers, or serverless functions) to access shared file storage simultaneously, growing and…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon EFS was created to solve the challenge of providing highly available, scalable, and fully managed shared file storage in the cloud. Before EFS, customers had to manually provision, manage, and scale traditional NFS servers on EC2 instances, which was operationally complex and difficult to integrate with elastic cloud-native architectures.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud (accessed from Linux, macOS, and Windows instances that support NFS clients)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Organizations migrating traditional on-premises workloads to AWS
- Enterprises leveraging AWS for cloud-native applications
- Companies using container orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS) for shared volumes
- Data analytics and machine learning teams for shared datasets
- Startups building scalable web services