Amazon Elastic File System
Serverless, fully elastic file storage
Benefits of Amazon EFS
Quick and easy to create
Create and configure shared file systems simply and quickly for AWS compute services—no provisioning, deploying, patching, or maintenance required.
Elastic and scalable
Scale workloads on-demand to petabytes of storage and gigabytes per second of throughput out of the box.
Pay as you go
Reduce TCO with automatic lifecycle management to cost-optimized Infrequent Access and Archive storage classes designed to lower costs up to 97%.
Secure and reliable
Securely and reliably access your files with a fully managed file system designed for 99.999999999 percent (11 9s) durability and up to 99.99 percent (4 9s) of availability.
Use cases
Simplify DevOps
Share code and other files in a secure, organized way to increase DevOps agility and respond faster to customer feedback.
Modernize application development
Persist and share data from your AWS containers and serverless applications with zero management required.
Accelerate data science
Easier to use and scale, Amazon EFS offers the performance and consistency needed for machine learning (ML) and big data analytics workloads.
Enhance content management systems
Simplify persistent storage for modern content management system (CMS) workloads. Get your products and services to market faster, more reliably, and securely at a lower cost.
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