Elastic File System (EFS)

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• use Network File Sharing (NFS) as protocol, for Linux instance only
• EFS is an implementation of NFSv4
• EFS filesystems can be mounted by the multiple EC2 from different AZs
• No scaling lmiit
• private service, via mount targets inside a VPC
• accessible from on-premises - VPN or DX with POSIX permissions
• General purpose & Max I/O performance modes
• bursting and provisioned throughput modes
• standard & infrequent access classes
• lifecycle policy can be used with class