We were hosting third party software in an EKS cluster and needed a way to share state between components of this system. We tried EFS initially but it actually

We were hosting third party software in an EKS cluster and needed a way to share state between components of this system. We tried EFS initially but it actually killed the EKS cluster with iowait under load. We found a way to divert most of the systems requirements to local emptydir volumes, leaving only infrequently accessed media files on EFS