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