Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Web Services
π‘ Pick it for the broadest AWS integration, mature automation, and elastic NFS storage.
Amazon Elastic File System is a fully managed elastic file system for AWS workloads. It provides shared NFS storage for Linux applications,...
Pros
- Mature integration with EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and other AWS services
- Automatically scales storage capacity without provisioning file servers
- Offers regional and one-zone deployment options
Cons
- NFS-focused and does not provide native SMB shares like Azure Files
- Can cost more than self-managed or tightly optimized file servers
- Performance and throughput behavior requires careful AWS-specific configuration
Pay-as-you-go; from $0.30/GB-month in some regions and tiers