EFS: A File Server
Learn about Amazon EFS and its properties.
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Amazon Elastic File Store (EFS) is a scalable and resilient file storage. It uses the Network File System (NFS) protocol (version 4 and 4.1) to serve files over the network. Windows does not support the NFS protocol, while most other operating systems do.
The description above already targets most shortcomings we identified when looking at EBS. Compared to EBS, EFS is highly scalable, highly available, and highly durable. Following are the features of EBS:
- Concurrent access for thousands of clients
- Authentication and authorization
- Encryption in flight and at rest