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Amazon Elastic File System
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<h2 id="use-cases">Use cases</h2> <p>According to Amazon, <a href="/facts/Use_case/8pNHjsIr">use cases</a> for this file system service typically include <a href="/facts/Content_repository/5M5NHDPV">content repositories</a>, <a href="/facts/Development_environment/gG7DJoE6">development environments</a>, web <a href="/facts/Server_farm/EQRag1TE">server farms</a>, <a href="/facts/Home_directory/cQpQ4nvp">home directories</a> and <a href="/facts/Big_data/XGtrVg4z">big data</a> applications.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="data-consistency">Data consistency</h2> <p>Amazon EFS provides open-after-close <a href="/facts/Data_consistency/WUxG1d41">consistency</a> semantics that applications expect from NFS.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="availability">Availability</h2> <p>Amazon EFS is available in all the public AWS regions at least since December 2019.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/GlusterFS/sVzz6ERY">GlusterFS</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Red_Hat_Storage_Server/cAuw6tp1">Red Hat Storage Server</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/efs/">Amazon Elastic File System</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Amazon EFS: How It Works - Amazon Elastic File System". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/how-it-works.html" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/how-it-works.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Encrypting Data and Metadata in EFS - Amazon Elastic File System". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/encryption.html" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/encryption.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) – Cloud File Storage – Amazon Web Services (AWS)". Amazon Web Services, Inc. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/efs/" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/efs/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Kovacs, Gali. "EBS vs S3 vs EFS: Which is the Best AWS Storage System". netapp.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/ebs-efs-amazons3-best-cloud-storage-system" target="_blank">https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/ebs-efs-amazons3-best-cloud-storage-system</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Network File System (NFS)–Level Users, Groups, and Permissions - Amazon Elastic File System". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/accessing-fs-nfs-permissions.html" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/accessing-fs-nfs-permissions.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"What Is Amazon Elastic File System? - Amazon Elastic File System". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Amazon Launches New File Storage Service For EC2 – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/amazon-launches-new-efs-file-storage-service-for-ec2/" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/09/amazon-launches-new-efs-file-storage-service-for-ec2/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Amazon EFS: How It Works - Amazon Elastic File System". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018. <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/how-it-works.html" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/how-it-works.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"AWS Regional Table". Amazon Web Services, Inc. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>