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
provisioned
throughput modes
throughput set statically and independent of storage size
throughput modes
availability options (2)
EFS
- one zone
- regional
EFS
one zone use case
availability options
for development use
availability options
regional use case
availability options
for prod use
availability options
Elastic File System
Fully managed NFS file system
EFS
Designed for Linux workloads
EFS
Use case
EFS
Available over multiple AZs
EFS
Availability
EFS
- Standard
- Infrequent access
EFS
Storage Classes (2)
EFS
moves files between storage classes
EFS
lifecycle management
EFS
Fully managed native Windows file system
EFS
FSx
EFS
- SMB
- AD integration
- NTFS
EFS FSx
Supported features (3)
EFS FSx
can be mounted on multiple instances
EFS
mountability
EFS
available over multiple AZs in same region
EFS
drive availability
EFS
completely scalable
EFS
sizing
EFS
use security groups
EFS
access management
EFS
pay per use
EFS
pay model
EFS
- general purpose
- max i/o
EFS
performance modes (2)
EFS
lowest latency
performance modes
general purpose
performance modes
high latency and high throughput
performance modes
max i/o
performance modes
- elastic
- bursting
- provisioned
EFS
throughput modes (3)
EFS
automatically scales throughput based on workloads
throughput modes
elastic
throughput modes
- basic througput sacles with storage size
- option to burst when workloads are heaviy
throughput modes
bursting (2)
throughput modes
throughput set statically and independent of storage size
throughput modes
provisioned
throughput modes
- one zone
- regional
EFS
availability options (2)
EFS
one zone benefit
EFS availability
90% cost savings vs regional
EFS availability
for development use
availability options
one zone use case
availability options
for prod use
availability options
regional use case
availability options
90% cost savings vs regional
EFS availability
one zone use case
EFS availability