Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
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Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 24.3% |
| Mid-Market | 35.7% |
| Enterprise | 40.0% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | 1 | 4.5 |
Satisfaction ratings
What reviewers say
EFS is scalable and highly-available with no limit on storage size and IOPS.
“EFS is fast, secure and provides ample storage. Excellent response time no need to provision storage beforehand. Easier to configure and set-up. Reduce admin burden of storage and reduce over-all cost by using infrequent access tier. Run multiple EC2 instances.”
Amazon EFS is an easy to set-up and no maintenance tool for read and write scalability.
“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. Seamless i”
EFS as a Common Storage
“EFS can be mounted with multiple Linux machines and can be accessed from multiples machines as well.”