Today, at the AWS Summit, Amazon announced the preview of its new file system called the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). EFS is a new storage service that provides a common file system for multiple EC2 virtual machines on AWS. EFS is a highly available, durable, fully managed SSD-based file system for EC2 that could scale to petabyte elastically.
“It provides multiple EC2 instances with low-latency, shared access to a fully-managed file system via the popular NFSv4 protocol, and is designed to perform well for a wide variety of workloads, with the ability to scale to thousands of concurrent connections.”
The EFS is expected to be available to public later this year.