SEATTLE (dpa-AFX) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) announced Wednesday that Amazon Web Services, Inc. or AWS launched Elastic File System, Amazon EFS, a new, fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale file storage in the AWS Cloud.
With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can use Amazon EFS to create file systems that are accessible to multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Amazon EC2 instances via the Network File System protocol.
Amazon EFS can automatically scale without needing to provision storage or throughput, enabling file systems to grow seamlessly to petabyte scale.
It is designed to support a broad range of file workloads - from big data analytics, media processing, and genomics analysis.
Amazon EFS is highly available and durable, redundantly storing each file system object across multiple Availability Zones. There is no minimum fee or setup cost, and Amazon EFS customers pay only for the storage they use.
'As customers continue to move more and more of their IT infrastructure to AWS, they've asked for a shared file storage service with the elasticity, simplicity, scalability, and on-demand pricing they enjoy with our existing object (Amazon S3), block (Amazon EBS), and archive (Amazon Glacier) storage services,' said Peter DeSantis, Vice President, Compute Services, AWS.
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