EFS vs. EBS

Difficulty: Intermediate

Question

What is the difference between EBS and EFS?

Answer

EBS is a block store attached to one EC2. EFS is a shared file system (NFS) that can be mounted on thousands of EC2s simultaneously.

Concepts covered

Storage, Shared FS

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