Investigating Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon EFS is not that different from Amazon EBS. Amazon EFS implements an elastic fully-managed Network File System (NFS) that can be leveraged by other AWS cloud services and on-premises infrastructure. The main difference is that several EC2 instances can be mounted to an EFS volume at the same time. Amazon EFS provides shared file storage that can elastically adjust on demand to expand or shrink depending on how much space your workloads require. It can grow and shrink as you add and remove files. Other than that, the structure will be like it is with Amazon EBS. Amazon EFS provides a typical file storage system where files can be organized into directories and subdirectories.
Common use cases for EFS volumes are also like EBS volumes. They are often used for the following:
- Hosting content management systems
- Hosting CRM applications that need to be hosted within the AWS data center but need to be managed by the AWS customer...
