Amazon Elastic File System
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Amazon Elastic File System
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#2On the one hand, I've been wanting something like this for a while. On the other hand, I have so many bad memories of problems caused by NFS in production from the 90s that I'm leery.
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#3I 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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#4We have been needing this very thing for hosting a large number of assets across multiple ec2 instances. Hope they roll this out quickly.
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#5As someone who doesn't know AWS much, what are the major differences between this and EBS?
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#6As 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.
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#9Looks interesting... but for my use case I'd rather not deal with NFS, use a FUSE-based S3 mount and save 90%.
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#10NFS as a service on AWS. That is going to shake things up.