New elastic file storage service makes it easy
to deploy and scale highly durable file systems in the AWS
Cloud
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), today announced that Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon
EFS), a new, fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and
scale file storage in the AWS Cloud, is now available to all
customers. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console,
customers can use Amazon EFS to create file systems that are
accessible to multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instances via the Network File System (NFS) protocol. Amazon EFS
can automatically scale without needing to provision storage or
throughput, enabling file systems to grow seamlessly to petabyte
scale, while supporting thousands of concurrent client connections
with consistent performance. Amazon EFS is designed to support a
broad range of file workloads – from big data analytics, media
processing, and genomics analysis that are massively parallelized
and require high levels of throughput, to latency-sensitive use
cases such as content management, home directory storage, and web
serving. Amazon EFS is highly available and durable, redundantly
storing each file system object across multiple Availability Zones.
There is no minimum fee or setup cost, and Amazon EFS customers pay
only for the storage they use. For more information about Amazon
EFS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/efs.
Today, companies of all sizes are moving their critical
workloads to the AWS Cloud. Many of these workloads depend on
Network Attached Storage (NAS). Traditionally, it has been costly
and time consuming to operate shared file systems because file
growth is unpredictable, procurement times are long, and monitoring
and patch management are administrative burdens. Now, with Amazon
EFS, customers can create and use shared file systems that are
simple, scalable, and reliable. Amazon EFS is easy to set up and
use and doesn’t require customers to provision and manage file
system software or storage hardware. When mounted to Amazon EC2
instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file
system interface and file system semantics, allowing customers to
seamlessly integrate Amazon EFS with their existing applications
and tools. Amazon EFS is designed to provide the throughput,
Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS), and low latency that
file workloads require. Every file system can burst to at least 100
MB per second, and file systems greater than 1 TB in size can burst
to higher throughput as file system capacity grows.
“As customers continue to move more and more of their IT
infrastructure to AWS, they’ve asked for a shared file storage
service with the elasticity, simplicity, scalability, and on-demand
pricing they enjoy with our existing object (Amazon S3), block
(Amazon EBS), and archive (Amazon Glacier) storage services,” said
Peter DeSantis, Vice President, Compute Services, AWS. “Initially,
our customers most passionately asking for a file system were
trying to solve for throughput-heavy use cases like data analytics
applications, large-scale processing workloads, and many forms of
content and web serving. Customers were excited about Amazon EFS’s
performance for those workloads, and pretty soon they were asking
if we could expand Amazon EFS to work excellently for more
latency-sensitive and metadata-heavy workloads like highly dynamic
web applications. That’s what we’ve been working on for the last
few months and we’re excited to release it to customers today.”
Atlassian delivers team collaboration and development tools like
JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, and Bitbucket to more than 57,000
customers. “We are growing by leaps and bounds, and our core
offering is all about better support delivery. During the course of
developing our next-generation internal support system, we never
wanted to worry about scale again, yet we had existing
architectural commitments that meant a distributed file solution
was required,” said Sri Viswanath, CTO, Atlassian. “Atlassian chose
Amazon EFS because it was the only option available that scaled
both capacity and performance – without the up-front payments or
the management overhead of traditional models. This allows our
support teams to focus on what matters most – helping our
customers.”
Arcesium, launched in 2015 by the D. E. Shaw group and
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, is a technology and
services company that provides asset managers with software and
service solutions for their post-trade activities. “Arcesium is a
financial services SaaS platform that requires resilient, secure,
and scalable file storage,” said Gaurav Suri, CEO, Arcesium.
“Amazon EFS offers us a powerful way to operate and scale file
storage for our Amazon EC2 instances, which has allowed us to build
out our platform quickly without compromising quality.”
Seeking Alpha is a platform for investment research, with broad
coverage of stocks, asset classes, ETFs, and investment strategy.
“Seeking Alpha subscribers rely on us for accurate trading
information,” said Asi Segal, Chief Technology Officer, Seeking
Alpha. “Amazon EFS helps us manage the thousands of web pages on
our site. It also helps us manage the traffic spikes generated by
financial market events, and ensure that every bit of content
requested during these spikes is quickly and reliably delivered to
our subscribers.”
Zend, now a Rogue Wave company, was founded by the co-authors of
PHP and provides commercial PHP solutions and support for
development leaders, DevOps, and developers. “Our technology drives
over 80 percent of the websites on the internet today,” said Boaz
Ziniman, Senior Director, Cloud Strategy, Zend. “As our customers
move websites to AWS, they need a highly available, highly
scalable, easy to use, and affordable file system and we found
Amazon EFS ideal for customer facing websites.”
Customers can launch Amazon EFS using the AWS Management
Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. Amazon EFS
is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU
(Ireland) Regions and will expand to additional Regions in the
coming months.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
70 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise
applications from 35 Availability Zones (AZs) across 13 geographic
regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland,
Japan, Korea, Singapore, and India. AWS services are trusted by
more than a million active customers around the world – including
the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
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than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
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by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
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