EFS

Performance

• docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html

• two modes: general and provisioned

• general

  • description: latency-sensitive use cases

  • throughput: 10+GB/s

  • usecase: latency-sensitive use cases, like web serving environments, content management systems, home directories, and general file serving

• provisioned:

  • description: File systems in the Max I/O mode can scale to higher levels of aggregate throughput and operations per second with a tradeoff of slightly higher latencies for file operations

  • throughput: 2GB/s

  • usecase: Highly parallelized applications and workloads, such as big data analysis, media processing, and genomics analysis, can benefit from this mode.

Use Cases

--- FAQ

EFS with lots of small files

• not ideal

• if you have to

  • redis

  • serve out of cloudfront