EFS Flashcards
EFS
Elastic File System
Fully managed NFS file system
Purpose
EFS
Designed for Linux workloads
EFS
Availability
EFS
Available over multiple AZs
EFS
Storage Classes (2)
EFS
Standard
Infrequent access
EFS
lifecycle management
EFS
moves files between storage classes
EFS
FSx
EFS
Fully managed native Windows file system
EFS
Supported features (3)
EFS FSx
- SMB
- AD integration
- NTFS
EFS FSx
instance access
EFS
can be mounted on multiple instances
EFS
drive availability
EFS
available over multiple AZs in same region
EFS
sizing
EFS
completely scalable
EFS
access management
EFS
use security groups
EFS
pay model
EFS
pay per use
EFS
performance modes (2)
EFS
- general purpose
- max i/o
EFS
general purpose
performance modes
lowest latency
performance modes
max i/o
performance modes
high latency and high throughput
performance modes
throughput modes (3)
EFS
- elastic
- bursting
- provisioned
EFS
elastic
throughput modes
automatically scales throughput based on workloads
throughput modes
bursting (2)
throughput modes
- basic throughput scales with storage size
- option to burst when workloads are heavy
throughput modes