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> EFS can scale to levels beyond what EBS is capable. While technically true, the gap isn't large and it has enormous caveats. EFS can scale to a "whopping" 5x
by electroly 5y ago
> EFS can scale to levels beyond what EBS is capable.
While technically true, the gap isn't large and it has enormous caveats. EFS can scale to a "whopping" 5x the aggregate throughput of a single gp3 EBS volume (5GB/sec EFS vs. 1GB/sec gp3). It requires at least 10 clients to reach that aggregate throughput. It barely beats a single io2 Block Express EBS volume (5GB/sec EFS vs. 4GB/sec io2 BE), and the io2 Block Express volume can do it with a single client. Reaching that 5GB/sec with EFS costs $30,000/month for either 100TB of data or 5GB/sec in provisioned bandwidth. Good luck!