Storage Classes

  • EFS Standard: High performance
  • EFS IA: Cost Optimised
  • EFS Archive: Archive

Performance Modes

  • General Purpose or Max I/O

Throughput Modes

  • Elastic, Provisioned, Bursting

Bursting: 50MiB/s + Burst Credits upto 100MiB/s Provisioned: Set your Throughput, upto Elastic: Automatically Scales based on workloads

File System Type

  • Regional or One Zone Standard is Regional, One zone is for pocs and test cases e

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html#performance-overview

Lifecycle Management

  • EFS has intelligent lifecycle policy which we can use to enforce

Operations

  • Some can be done in place, some requires full migrations 🚨

Lifecycle Policy, Throughput, access points, and PIOPS can be changed in place

Requires migration

  • Change encryption key
  • Enable performance Mode Max IO