Scale up, good for low latency.
Single and Multi-AZ options with different performance profiles.
Pricing (us-east-1):
- SSD storage capacity $0.09 per GB-month (uncompressed), eg: 100 GB = $9
- Throughput capacity $0.260 per MBps-month eg: 125 MB/s = $32.5
- SSD IOPS $0.0060 per IOPS-month, eg: 300 IOPS = $1.8
Prefer Single-AZ 2 for better performance.
Scale out, good for high throughput.
Can be backed by S3, so has S3-level durability guarantees.
Perf based on data size, baseline 200MB/s see Amazon FSx for Lustre Performance
Pricing (us-east-1):
- SSD Storage capacity 125 MB/s/TiB $0.145 per GB-month (uncompressed)
Because pricing is based on storage not usage, it scales across multiple machines.
EFS bursts to 100 MiB/s Not backed by S3.
Pricing (us-east-1):
- Standard Storage (GB-Month) $0.30
- Infrequent Access Storage (GB-Month) $0.025
- Infrequent Access Requests (per GB transferred) $0.01
- Provisioned Throughput (MB/s-Month) $6.00