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I think EFS is meant for large read-heavy patterns, at least that's what we used it for. For example, I help run an e-commerce site that has a lot of content (
by Corrado 10y ago
I think EFS is meant for large read-heavy patterns, at least that's what we used it for. For example, I help run an e-commerce site that has a lot of content (JS, CSS, images, etc.) that we serve up from 10 dedicated servers as well as 30 general servers. When we release new content we have to update each of the servers and make sure that everything got installed properly everywhere. With EFS, we just have to update one thing and everyone gets it automatically.
- lucaspiller 10y agoWhy don't you use S3 and Cloudfront to serve all the assets?
- lsaferite 10y agoMaybe their platform wasn't designed around using S3 and retrofitting that into the platform is a significant task compared to using EFS as the backing store with CloudFront mediating client access?
- Corrado 10y agoExactly! The code base is going on 15 years old and was built with no knowledge of S3 or it's ilk. For that reason each WWW server has to have a local copy of all the assets (or at least a significant portion).