Amazon EFS

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What job does it solve?

Several Linux compute units need a shared file namespace.

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Where does it stop?

You need Windows SMB, block storage, or object storage.

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Closely related services

• Amazon FSx for Windows File ServerManaged Windows file storage using SMB and Windows-native integration.
• Amazon EBSPersistent block volumes for EC2 instances in one Availability Zone.
• Amazon S3Durable object storage for data addressed by bucket and object key rather than as a mounted disk.

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Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
• Lesson 14Choose storage by access pattern and performance
• Lesson 29Make a legacy workload safer without breaking it
• Lesson 36Storage service, access-pattern, and size economics
• Lesson 38Backup, block/file elasticity, and migration economics

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