--- 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 $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Files](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Files") Azure Files 4/5(55) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-files/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud Filestore](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Filestore") Google Cloud Filestore 4/5(21) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-filestore/reviews) [ ![Cyberduck](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cyberduck") Cyberduck 4.3/5(87) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cyberduck/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-file-system-amazon-efs/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 71 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Integrations (5) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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We use it to share the home directories for our users to allow them to have the same env on all of their unix machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Just the cost. We have to pay money for 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? Allow users to have the same env on every machine. Easier user experience on each server. 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") UI 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. "Effective but expensive" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? The performance seems to be ok in comparison to EBS for random reads. Scales well and provides a great platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? The cost is on the higher side. The cost gets escalted drastically as the size of the data increases 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 use EFS as a repication layer for query accelarations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Sporting Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Sporting Goods") US Verified User in Sporting Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "AWS EFS connects other AWS services" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? AWS EFS integrates all the other AWS services together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Monitoring tools could be useful if it is standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): Keeping application binary files and directories in an EFS file system location enables a shared location between application domains and managed servers 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 allows shared file systems between our AWS services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Industrial Automation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Industrial Automation") AI Verified User in Industrial Automation Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "efs backend for docker swarm" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? The flexibility that allows you to attach the file sytem and it can grow over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? What I dislike about this product is nothing 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 we have immutable infrastrutcure, efs allows us to store data without being impacted when any infrastructure is removed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "EFS is simple and straightforward" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It is easy to have simple file shares created and used for our cloud configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It may not be as flexible as normal on-prem NFS solutions (not to mention no real SMB functionality or DFS integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing & sharing applicaiton output.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Solid service, no extended ACL's" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? It work solidly. If you need performance, be sure to select the right mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? NFS v4 extended ACLs not supported. If you don't need them, then it's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Moving historical workloads to the cloud without having to completely refactor code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") AE Verified User in Entertainment Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "Excellent for file sharing for your unix env" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Easy to create and configure. Easy to mount, use and backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Nothing I remember. Sometime latency report from application teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Used for couple of legacy application where the Shared file systems needed,. 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") II Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/12/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "AWS Elastic - makes our product better" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? makes our product easier to use, is a value add to customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? i haven't run into issues with customers, other than the AWS outage that effected quite a few customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): adds value, but talk at length about the possibility of outages and the effect that can have on you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? makes it easier to search, adds value to our product, and helps customers easily transition from one platform to the other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Nice start but a bit slow" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? File on cloud exists. HPC and EDA products need file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? Slow and doesn't scale well across nodes. Doesn't meet EDA and HPC needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Multiple HPC and EDA clients needs persistent NFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching") UP Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/13/2018 "Very user friendly! " 3/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? I love how easy to use this software system is. Have a question? The FAQ sections has literally step by step instructions. For those who are more tech savvy, you'll find the perks much better than other file systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)? The initial setup up isn't as easy to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Data is much more organized and secure here. I trust Amazon and they haven't let me down yet! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## 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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