{"id":26220,"date":"2016-07-01T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26220"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:11:27","slug":"amazon-elastic-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/01\/amazon-elastic-file-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Elastic File System"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here are some great news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/amazon-elastic-file-system-production-ready-in-three-regions\/\">Amazon AWS blog<\/a> &#8211; the announcement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/efs\/\">Elastic File System<\/a> (EFS):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EFS lets you create POSIX-compliant file systems and attach them to one or more of your EC2 instances via NFS. The file system grows and shrinks as necessary (there\u2019s no fixed upper limit and you can grow to petabyte scale) and you don\u2019t pre-provision storage space or bandwidth. 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