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Re: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions

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I suspect you're being downvoted because you've described every piece of technology ever created.

Or the "HAHAHA. YES! So much this." part. Though I can't down vote so I wouldn't know.

I just think that some people are getting excited about reviving the SAN. I don't think everyone realises or is familiar with the pain running NFS on distributed or non distributed infrastructure can cause, when used for the wrong use cases... Yes my comment was a bit of a joke too.

Re: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions

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Why hasn't anyone mentioned ObjectiveFS? When EFS was in preview just a month or so ago it was absolutely abysmal with performance for basic smaller web stuff.

OFS feels nearly like an attached disk, and uses S3. You only pay per mount. Their support has been awesome and very personal.

It provides a fuse-based full POSIX filesystem backed by S3 and can be mounted from multiple places in multiple regions. Some basic things like snapshotting they said are coming soon too.

I gave up on EFS and even though it's finally out of preview, I think I still am going to prefer OFS based on what I've seen so far...

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