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AWS Elastic File System

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Summary

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a cloud-based shared file system that can be installed on multiple instances at once. EFS uses the NFS protocol so it is suitable for collaborative workloads such as web content and shared media files. The capacity automatically grows and shrinks according to the stored files so there's no need to guess the size of the disk at the beginning.

Key points

EFS is a shared file system installed via NFS
It's shared by many instances and AZ
Capacity increases and shrinks automatically
Suitable for web content, shared application data, and media

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