Amazon Elastic File System is Available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region.

Amazon EFS provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. Amazon EFS is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need – when they need it. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies. Amazon EFS is a fully managed service that requires no changes to your existing applications and tools, providing access through a standard file system interface for seamless integration. There is a Standard and an Infrequent Access storage class available with Amazon EFS. Using Lifecycle Management, files not accessed for 30 days will automatically be moved to a cost-optimized Infrequent Access storage class, giving you a simple way to store and access active and infrequently accessed file system data in the same file system while reducing storage costs by up to 85%. Amazon EFS is a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability. You can access your file systems across AZs, regions, and VPCs and share files between thousands of Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers via AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN.

Amazon EFS is well suited to support a broad spectrum of use cases from highly parallelized, scale-out workloads that require the highest possible throughput to single-threaded, latency-sensitive workloads. Use cases such as lift-and-shift business-critical applications, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, and container storage.

For more information, please visit the Amazon EFS product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.