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Re: Amazon Elastic File System

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I think this is a great product, but I've been actively avoiding NFS for a while now. It's a real shame that there isn't a better network FS protocol standardized already - NFS is complex, is usually a single point of failure (would be interesting to know if EFS isn't...) and comes with a whole set of cruft.

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As someone who doesn't know AWS much, what are the major differences between this and EBS?

You can mount the volume on more than one instance at the same time, which you can't do with EBS.

It's also hard to resize an EBS volume, right? This resizes itself automatically.
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