Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as part of a server cloud allowing for the implementation of quick and easy access between two different web applications (WordPress and Discourse)

Likelihood to Recommend

While the idea is to utilize it enterprise wide; it sometimes doesn't work well in smaller applications and that causes slowdowns and impacts productivity. Also when evaluating EFS versus EBS - one needs to look at cost as EFS is a lot more expensive to implement and run so you need to weigh cost benefits of both systems and choose the best for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EFS as a shared file system for a WebServer application, it's easy to mount of linux servers and all of them can read or write to the same storage. Excellent response time and no need to provision storage beforehand.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to shared information across a fleet of servers your vest option is EFS.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Elastic File System is being used in certain departments of the organization. This is a great tool as it handles the scalability of the filesystem so that multiple instances of EC2 can write and monitor the updates simultaneously. The capacity in this can be easily adjusted and no overhead management is needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon EFS provide you scalable elastic file system with ease of integration of your past setup.My company already using multiple Amazon services AWS cloud so Amazon EFS is very helpful.

I am from analytics team but I have used this in project with out Tech engineering team.

We need large file system where rdbms and other resource is not helpful and we start using elastic file system.

It is started from project level and now it used completed department not company level but our department which consist of engineering team, analytics team and category product managers. System are now using Amazon EFS

Likelihood to Recommend

When are API is exposed to limited user previous system is working fine. Amazon EFS comes into picture when we have more number user for internal API and even one user has multiple instance which required file need to maintained dynamically and session out problem need to be resolved.

Amazon EFS help in making system scalable and highly reliable. now no more high user and session timeout issue exist

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use EFS for back-end storage for our larger systems and platforms. It adequately solves the business problem of file-as-a-service. Rather than spin up a few VMs and employ something like DRBD, EFS will provide a highly-available, scalable NFS export that can be mounted in multiple availability zones. It has just enough options to make it robust and enterprise-ready while keeping it simple to set up in just a few clicks.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works well as run-of-the-mill NFS that is managed as a service rather than a server. It works anywhere NFS is usable.