What is Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and how does it differ from Amazon EBS in terms of access patterns and use cases?

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What is Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and how does it differ from Amazon EBS in terms of access patterns and use cases?

Key points

  • EFS supports concurrent access by thousands of instances, while EBS is attached to one instance at a time
  • EFS is suited for shared file storage, while EBS is better for specific applications like databases
  • EFS automatically scales capacity, while EBS requires manual adjustments

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