Emily Clarke

What Is AWS EFS?

With everything involved in a business, you want to hone in on efficiency. Efficiency is the hallmark of what makes a business successful. Without EFS or an elastic file system, organizations would need to build key management infrastructures. AWS, Amazon web services, and EFS allows for user-based encryption for different types of data. Let's take a closer look at what EFS is, some of its features, and the backup solution you need for your storage needs.

AWS EFS

Amazon EFS allows for sharing AWS files, management of those files, mounting them on IaaS, and more. It is one of three storage services and is cloud-based. With EFS, users can control who reads certain files within their system through encryption. This encryption happens at the folder level. Each file that is added is automatically encrypted.

Features of EFS

Shared Storage- There are two ways to access files: from on-premise or AWS services. Both can be accessed at the same time, up to one thousand EC2 instances. In addition, accessing files can be done across AZs (AWS Availability Zones) and Regions.

Scalable Performance-EFS' scalable feature ensures that as storage size grows, its performance increases. This scales as data moves, which helps to reduce the risk of losing storage space or paying for storage that isn't needed.

Secure and Compliant-There are multiple layers to EFS' security, these layers rely on existing security. You can use POSIX to define individual file permission, and it can be used with IAM (Amazon's Identity and Access Management) and VPC security groups.

AWS EFS has many other features as well, so it's a smart and much-needed solution. However, all will be for naught if you don't have a viable backup solution.

The AWS EFS Backup Solution You Need: AWS EFS Backup Software

Storage can only get a business so far. It must also have an effective backup solution. An excellent solution is employing Arpio's AWS EFS backup software to effectively provide backup to your storage needs. Contact Arpio today.

Author Resource:-

Emily Clarke writes about AWS disaster recovery platform, vaulted data protection and security. You can find her thoughts at disaster recovery blog.