--- title: Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 71 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 71 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a storage system that provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud with easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Files](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Files") Azure Files 4/5(55) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-files/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud Filestore](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Filestore") Google Cloud Filestore 4/5(21) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-filestore/reviews) [ ![Cyberduck](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cyberduck") Cyberduck 4.3/5(87) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cyberduck/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 71 real user reviews. 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[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Amazon EC2 ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-amazon-eks/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") AWS CodeDeploy ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-codedeploy/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Lambda Suite ](https://www.g2.com/products/lambda-suite/reviews) Show More AK Ankshit K. Assistant Director Of Food And Beverage Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/3/2023 "Best experience to keep your data safe" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Performance Reliable Shared File Storage Data Security All the above 4 elements are the key factor to keep the data safe, secure and user friendly. It's a cloud based file storage service provided by Amazon web services (AWS), it's a highly accessible file storage service that added value addition in AWS when you need to store the data safely to use across multiple occassion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Data transfer cost Regional availability Complexity particularly for new users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Secure the data safely Ease of use Compatibility User friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sebastian B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sebastian B.") SB Sebastian B. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/22/2023 "Easy way to expand your storage, for a price" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It mounts on Linux (RH based are easier than Ubuntu based) and the unimited capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? The price is the main drawback, so I use it when there is no other option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? There are several use cases for EFS, in our case we use it to share files in the group. Also for applications that can't use S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") CT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/12/2023 "EFS" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? For the past six years, I have been extensively utilizing AWS' Elastic File System (EFS), which has proven to be an incredibly efficient tool for storage and serving as a central file system. I have successfully integrated it into various environments, including Kubernetes (K8s) and EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? I dislike about EFs is CPU burst and sometime the performance of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Availability Zone (AZ) configuration. This setup allows us to achieve high availability and fault tolerance by distributing our data across multiple AZs. EFS serves as a central file system that plays a crucial role in our logging strategy across various components in our ecosystem. We heavily rely on EFS to store and manage data generated by our applications and services. Its multi-AZ architecture ensures that our data remains accessible even in the event of a failure in one of the availability zones. This level of resilience and redundancy provided by EFS is instrumental in maintaining the integrity and availability of our logging infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kshitij T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kshitij T.") KT Kshitij T. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/21/2023 "Dynamic sizing data storage using Amazon EFS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Amazon elastic file system is used to store files and data server less without manual management of scaling up and scaling down by user. The best feature of Amazon efs is it automatically grows and shrinks as data increases or decreases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? One distadvantage where Amazon efs can be improved is absence of Amazon efs use as system boot volumes as an end user we cannot use efs as system boot volume to an ec2 instance and user have to switch to ebs volumes . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon efs is solving the problem of storage of files have dynamic sizes or count i.e. use cases where file sizes or number of files increases or decreases. Efs is solving the issue of dynamic provisioning. Efs is benefiting me by storing application logs specifically for application running on containers and generating logs files. This makes production application logs highly available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chandan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chandan S.") CS Chandan S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/13/2023 "The Amazon EFS is flawless for new User." 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Amazon EFS provide flawless support if your requirement is huge file system that can accommodate huge amount of volume from any data source, and can give developer hassle-free life Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? There are few downside of Amazon Elastic System. One is the price is high which means you have to burn more dollars on your infrastructure, another one could be support, it doesn't support window machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? As the name suggest it's trying to solve elasticity in file system, most system required huge db but few of them with specific requirements required huge file system to support, and here EFS came to rescue you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nitin G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nitin G.") NG Nitin G. Professional Services Delivery Engineer(DevOps) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/8/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Used it for hosting Jenkins, works charmingly well" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Scalability is best when you host workloads and do not have to think twice about increasing users or traffic. On top of that, durability and robustness are added advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? For small files, EFS performances are not adequate, a bit too expensive when hosting large workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? EFS is solving the problem of limited storage when hosting workloads and less manual intervention in order to handle scaling workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alik G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alik G.") AG Alik G. Associate-Projects Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/9/2023 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Amazon elastic file system is very much useful while deploying multi az deployment as the file system can be mounted on both the the availability zones which acts as a backup file system in case anything goes wrong on one az then another az can work smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Nothing to dislike. EFS is far better than EBS which comes handy during multi az deployment and cross region deployment as well which are Very much necessary for production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? EFS is solving multi az file storage availablity which EBS doesn't have and that is the most necessary requirement of production environment code deployment as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") AI Verified User in Insurance Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2023 "Amazon EFS a solution to replace Isilon(NAS) Shares" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Its ease of management. Using AWS IAM we can control the permission and access of EFS as well. Its better that the Isilon shares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? So far it running good an fulfilling our requirement. Not faced any major issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it to share data from UNIX based servers to Windows user using EFS. Its easy to use. Also syncing of data is perect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohamed M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohamed M.") MM Mohamed M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/14/2023 "Amazon review" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Amazon elastic file system was most helpful and it qualities to do more appreciations and it has bet thing about their customers and clients at Amazon and cannot be compared Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Nothing to dislike about Amazon and no one can realise with solutions. Also there is nothing better can be doenbeyond this It will reaching to position in the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? It is being resolving all.type of problems and benefits are more to say for Amazon also more productive with the usage and increase in business ideas will be sponsored Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Investment Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Investment Banking") UI Verified User in Investment Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/13/2023 "Review on EFS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It is cost effective as it offers pay as you go pricing model along with it scalability features as it can automatically scale as per the demand. It can replicate data across multiple Availability zones/ regions and can integrate with various AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It's only suitable for large workloads as it is costlier for smaller workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us to store the application logs which are running in EKS cluster and it acts as a central store for all the application logs in the system and due to its multi availability zone feature our data is available in case any availability zone fails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? 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