Amazon Elastic File System

Simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system

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5 GB of standard storage

for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

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

Scale your file system automatically as files are added, removed, and burst to higher throughput levels when necessary.

Pay only for the storage you use and reduce costs up to 92 percent by automatically moving infrequently accessed files.

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.

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.

Use cases

Simplify DevOps

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

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Modernize application development

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

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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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Accelerate data science

Easy 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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