- Scalable, elastic, Cloud-Native NFS File System
- Attach a single file system to multiple EC2 Instances
- Don't worry about running out or managing disk space
- EFS is a file storage service for EC2 instances
- Storage capacity grows (upto petabytes) and shrinks automatically based on data stored (elastic)
- Multiple EC2 instances in same VPC can mount a single EFS Volume (Volume must be in same VPC)
- EC2 instances install the NFSv4.1 client and can then mount the EFS volume
- EFS is using Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) protocol
- EFS creates multiple mount targets in all your VPC subnets 0 You based per space used starting at $0.30 GB / month