--- 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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VC Vishal C. IT Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/11/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Amazon web service cloud good for all of you" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? AEFS is easy to use and simple interface allow us to create a file system quickly and easily. We can share the file storage, automatically and instantly scales, low in cost, highly available and durable and so much secure for your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? When we store the data in big size, we have purchase the plans of the aws recommend to us. That is why some of the people are not using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Common sharing information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Victoria L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Victoria L.") VL Victoria L. Application Systems Analyst Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/22/2018 "Easy to use" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Like most all AWS components, I like how it is so easy to set up and connect an EFS mount to your VMs that you create within your VPC. The additional snapshots functionality is a big plus too. The documentation is straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Have not run into anything I dislike or have any issues yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): I would highly recommend using this product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? i can easily utilize this and not have to rely or purchase additional on prem storage to connect my VMs to. It is quick to setup and associate my servers and have them mounted very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SN Sheraz N. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "EFS Needs windows support" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Serverless and not having to worry about hardware. Easy of management. Central management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Would like to see support for windows operating system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? not having to manage storage/block device on individual servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") AI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "EFS Solved our capacity problems" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? We lov enot having to worry about adding hard drives to a server when we need more storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Dislike the teired performance model, where we need to have more stored on EFS to get better IO 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 a huge benefit to not have to worry about adding hard drives to servers. We have edge systems that have unpredictable capacity and EFS helps solve the storage problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign SM Sven M. CEO Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "Perfect eleastic storage" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? So fairly easy to setup and scale.the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? There nothing much around this service that i havent really come to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Simple to setup and scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign NK nitesh k. cloudops Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/26/2018 "nice platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? nfs like feature which enables ease of use and helps to complete tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? there should be feature to auto increase the volume space Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Sharing of files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") CC Verified User in Computer Networking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "EFS is great for expanding storage!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Automatically increases in size as you need storage without downtime or replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? If you have an application that will pull data from the EFS drive often you may run out of burst credits. This will require you reach out to AWS to get an extension. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): Keep an eye on burst credits and usage of the EFS drive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Autoscaling web servers and local storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Market Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Market Research") CM Verified User in Market Research Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "EFS is awesome" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? EFS allowed us to scale reads to levels that no other system would match. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? When you delete files from EFS it can take hours to delete files that took minutes to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): If you need NFS in the cloud, nothing beats EFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Trying to create a realtime calculation engine using EFS + autoscaling groups in lue of Map Reduce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/4/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Shared Storage" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Able to share file system across ec2 instances for shared access to files and directories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Having no SLA for EFS. If the application requires to have low latency with shared storage there is no direct way to increase SLA for the shared file system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): NA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Sharing files and directories across multiple EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "When multiple instances need shared storage" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Used it once in an Elastic Beanstalk deployment. It was very easy to set up and get started with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? File throughput was not fast enough for our use-case as throughput was tied to amounts of GB's that you stored. We only used 1GB and did not get a good throughput. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Shared storage between instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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