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Atharva P

June 8, 2026 Source: G2.com

Fully Managed, Scalable Shared Storage with Seamless AWS Integration

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

What I like most about Amazon EFS is that it provides a fully managed, scalable shared file system that multiple applications and compute instances can access at the same time. Unlike traditional storage systems, its capacity scales automatically, so there’s no need for manual provisioning.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

I also appreciate how seamlessly it integrates with EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda, which makes it straightforward to support workloads that need persistent shared storage. The shared storage capability is a major benefit for me.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

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Dashan P

May 16, 2024 Source: G2.com

EFS is scalable and highly-available with no limit on storage size and IOPS.

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS is fast, secure and provides ample storage. Excellent response time no need to provision storage beforehand.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Easier to configure and set-up.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Reduce admin burden of storage and reduce over-all cost by using infrequent access tier.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Run multiple EC2 instances.

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Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

March 6, 2024 Source: G2.com

Amazon EFS is an easy to set-up and no maintenance tool for read and write scalability.

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon EFS is a great tool as it handles the scalability of the filesystem so it enables multiple instances of EC2 can write and monitor the updates simultaneously. It's an easy to setup and has a great performance. It enables us to run multiple EC2 instances easily.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Seamless integrations with other tools.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It's fast and reliable and work very well for all the distributed and analytical systems.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me nothing I have come across that I dislike. No issues at all.

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Shamar V

February 7, 2024 Source: G2.com

Has no limit on storage size.

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon EFS is a very easy to set-up and implement storage for our cloud environment. We use it for back-end storage for our large systems and platforms. This helps to solve most business problems of file-as-a-service. I like that this tool provides scalable elastic file system with ease of integration with our apps and systems.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It's fast and reliable and works great with distributed and analytical systems.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

High-performance ans availability.

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Santosh V

February 4, 2024 Source: G2.com

Easy integration and great performance file system tool.

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

What I like about Amazon EFS is that it's very easy to use and a very powerful file system that allows for seamless transfer of user experience from one application to another in a seamless way. It also allows for storage of user-upload images to be addressed over different servers and applications.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It's very scalable which allows it to be implemented from small userbase set-up through enterprise applications.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

No limitation on storage and IOPS.

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Ajay S N

January 11, 2024 Source: G2.com

EFS as a Common Storage

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS can be mounted with multiple Linux machines and can be accessed from multiples machines as well.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS is available only for linux machines. But I believe there is some other service from AWS for windows, but I haven't used it.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

For one of our client, they wanted some files both in their production environment and development environment. Those files are kept in an EFS storage and mounted in the two machines.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

October 29, 2023 Source: G2.com

DevOps Engineer

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

The best part of EFS is its auto scale and I don't have to worry about to keep increasing it. It is like load balancer of storages but in a smart way.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Pricing is one of the reason to dislike but it overcome by its quality of service and peace of mind that storage auto expend as it need.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Auto scalling of storage that increases as we need and not to worry about adding more storage to an instances.

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Verified User in Insurance

October 22, 2023 Source: G2.com

Amazon EFS a solution to replace Isilon(NAS) Shares

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Its ease of management. Using AWS IAM we can control the permission and access of EFS as well. Its better that the Isilon shares.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

So far it running good an fulfilling our requirement. Not faced any major issue.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it to share data from UNIX based servers to Windows user using EFS. Its easy to use. Also syncing of data is perect.

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Sebastian B

October 22, 2023 Source: G2.com

Easy way to expand your storage, for a price

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It mounts on Linux (RH based are easier than Ubuntu based) and the unimited capacity.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

The price is the main drawback, so I use it when there is no other option.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are several use cases for EFS, in our case we use it to share files in the group. Also for applications that can't use S3.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

October 4, 2023 Source: G2.com

Amazon EFS Helpful for increasing disk space on Server

What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon EFS is very useful for increasing diskspace on EC2 server. Most helpful thing is that it is shared among multiple server so we can attach it to multiple EC2 server. As well it is cost efficent because as it cost as much as we us. Its performance also icreases as much more data stored on it upto 10GB/S IPOS.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It is easy to use as full documentation is avilable on AWS docs.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Customer support is also helpfull and avilable any time.

What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can easily add it with our EC2 instances.

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Atharva P

Dashan P

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Shamar V

Santosh V

Ajay S N

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Verified User in Insurance

Sebastian B

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

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