5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon Elastic File System first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It turned out that EFS had an initial "grace period" during which IOPS were unlimited, then it would become proportional to the GB of stored data.”
regret · production · jiggawatts · 2025-01-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it would timeout after 7 days for an incremental backup, and we reported this several times in tickets.”
regret · production · orf · 2022-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“plus durable storage in RDS, EFS, and S3, to a single dedicated box at OVH”
neutral · production · mwcampbell · 2022-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we also use EFS to run Python based functions that have dependencies that are too big for the Lambda itself.”
neutral · production · rememberlenny · 2021-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have basically done everything to rule out the EFS as the issue”
neutral · production · Roritharr · 2019-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?