Amazon Elastic File System

Serverless, fully elastic file storage

Benefits of Amazon Elastic File System

Create and configure shared file systems simply and quickly for AWS compute services—no provisioning, deploying, patching, or maintenance required.

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Scale workloads on-demand to petabytes of storage and gigabytes per second of throughput out of the box.

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Reduce TCO with automatic lifecycle management to cost-optimized Infrequent Access and Archive storage classes designed to lower costs up to 97%.

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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.

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How it works

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files with no need for management or provisioning.
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Use cases

Share code and other files in a secure, organized way to increase DevOps agility and respond faster to customer feedback.

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Persist and share data from your AWS containers and serverless applications with zero management required.

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Easier to use and scale, Amazon EFS offers the performance and consistency needed for machine learning (ML) and big data analytics workloads.

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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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