{"id":24022,"date":"2015-04-30T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24022"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:14:28","slug":"amazon-efs-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/30\/amazon-efs-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon EFS preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon Elastic File System<\/a>, or EFS for short, is the missing piece of the cloud puzzle. \u00a0With all those EC2 instances, elastic load balances and IAM roles, one would often need a shared file system. \u00a0Until now, you’d either be using either an S3<\/a>-based solution, which scales well in terms of price and storage, but lacks in common tools support and sometimes in real-time synchronization; or an EBS<\/a>-based solution, which performs way better (especially with SSD-backed storage) and works like a regular file system, but is a bit more pricey and lacking, being a block-level solution, the sharing option – so you’d have to build something like a GlusterFS<\/a> solution or an NFS server, both of which have their own issues.<\/p>\n

So, the arrival of the EFS, even as a preview for now, will bring joy to many.<\/p>\n

Amazon EFS is a new fully-managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale shared file storage in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS supports NFSv4, and is designed to be highly available and durable. Amazon EFS can support thousands of concurrent EC2 client connections with consistent performance, making it ideal for a wide range of use cases, including content repositories, development environments, and home directories, as well as big data applications that require on-demand scaling of file system capacity and performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Quote from the webinar pitch<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In terms of integration, it looks easy for the Linux crowd – NFSv4 option is there. \u00a0What’s happening in the Windows world, I’m not that aware though. \u00a0Gladly, that’s not my problem to worry.<\/p>\n

In terms of pricing<\/a>, this looks a bit expensive. \u00a0The calculations are in GB-Months, with the current price being $0.30 per GB-Month. \u00a0An example for 150 GB used over the first two weeks of the month and 250 GB sued over the second half of the month, yields a 177 GB-Month<\/strong> average at a cost of $53.10 USD<\/strong>. \u00a0Even knowing that EFS is riding on SSD-based hardware and should be quite fast, the price is high. \u00a0Amazon is known however for its regular price reductions.<\/p>\n

So for now, I’d wait. \u00a0It’s good to know that the option is there (or almost there, preview still pending). \u00a0But for the masses to jump onto it, it’ll need to calm down its dollar hunger a bit.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon Elastic File System, or EFS for short, is the missing piece of the cloud puzzle. \u00a0With all those EC2 instances, elastic load balances and IAM roles, one would often need a shared file system. \u00a0Until now, you’d either be using either an S3-based solution, which scales well in terms of price and storage, but … Continue reading Amazon EFS preview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Amazon EFS preview #aws #AmazonAWS #cloud #hosting","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,2366,3212,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-24022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-cloud-computing","tag-storage","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26220,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/01\/amazon-elastic-file-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":24022,"position":0},"title":"Amazon Elastic File System","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some great news from the Amazon AWS blog - the announcement of the Elastic File System (EFS): EFS lets you create POSIX-compliant file systems and attach them to one or more of your EC2 instances via NFS. 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