Amazon Elastic File System
Serverless, fully elastic file storage
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.
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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: Cost-optimized Infrequent Access and Archive storage classes can save up to 95%
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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

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.
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.
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Customers
How to get started
Learn more about EFS for Modern Applications
Modernize your serverless and containerized applications with shared file data.
Connect with an expert
From development to enterprise-level programs, get the right support at the right time.