Eastic File System¶
TLDR¶
High performance network file system which is pay per gb use and can attach to multiple services in multiple AZs.
Features¶
- multi AZ
- high avalilable, scalable and expensive
- pay per use
- uses SecurityGroup
Uses cases¶
- Content Management, web serving, data sharing
- NFSv4.1 protocol
- Only compatible with linux
- encyption at rest with KMS
- posix file system
Performance¶
- 1000s of clients 10GBs throughput
- Can handle petabyte scale data
Performances Modes¶
- set at creation time
General purpose¶
- web server, cms
- latency sensitive
Max IO¶
- higher latency and throughput
- paralell
- big data, media processing
Throughput modes¶
bursting¶
- 1 tb = 50mbs + burst of up to 100mbs
provisioned¶
- set throughput regardless of size
- use when data created is small but performance needs to be high
Storage classes¶
Storage Tiers¶
- livecycle managemet for cost savings
- uses livecycle policies
Standard¶
- frequently access files
Infrequent access¶
- cost to retrieve files but lower storage costs
Availablity¶
Standard¶
- multi AZ
One Zone¶
- one AZ
- good for dev
- compatible with infrequent acess ( for up to 90% in savings)
- backup enabled by default