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I wish AWS would be a little more technical in their product descriptions and announcements. If there was ever an audience that wants technical data about how this type of technology will scale and compares to existing technology like glusterfs it would be the AWS users. Instead the performance specifications are ".. and is designed to provide the throughput, IOPS, and low latency needed for a broad range of workload…
What's the advantage of this over S3?
This is a filesystem. You mount it directly inside your EC2 boxes and work with it as if it's local (or really NFS-mounted). It's going to be a couple of orders of magnitude faster, but not directly web-connected, so you can't use it to serve content directly as if it was a CDN. I can see this being useful for a few cases. For one, I can immediately use it for one of the projects I have where I have multiple worker s…
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S3fs filesystems are really slow. We tested around 10mb/s for file upload. Where it really struggles is when you have a lot of files in a folder. Try doing an 'ls' on a folder with hundreds of files to see it break.
S3 also seems to provide only eventual consistency.
What's the advantage of this over S3?
What's the advantage of this over S3?
One nice thing would be hosting wordpress on multiple EC2 servers. All local copies of your wordpress directory would be kept in sync automatically with no other configuration.
I can't be the only one that has been woken up at 2am because of an NFS outage.
I wish AWS would be a little more technical in their product descriptions and announcements. If there was ever an audience that wants technical data about how this type of technology will scale and compares to existing technology like glusterfs it would be the AWS users. Instead the performance specifications are ".. and is designed to provide the throughput, IOPS, and low latency needed for a broad range of workload…
We'll be providing a lot more details later.
Does anyone else cringe when someone suggestions using NFS in production? I can't be the only one that has been woken up at 2am because of an NFS outage.
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One nice thing would be hosting wordpress on multiple EC2 servers. All local copies of your wordpress directory would be kept in sync automatically with no other configuration.
Yeah, I have a WP Multisite cluster that's a real pain to manage for this reason. Probably will be my first use of EFS.