Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs Elastifile comparison

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    Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.

    When mounted to Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file system interface and file system access semantics, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Amazon EFS with your existing applications and tools. Multiple Amazon EC2 instances can access an Amazon EFS file system at the same time, allowing Amazon EFS to provide a common data source for workloads and applications running on more than one Amazon EC2 instance.

    It’s designed for high availability and durability, and provides performance for a broad spectrum of workloads and applications, including Big Data and analytics, media processing workflows, content management, web serving, and home directories.

    Elastifile provides the first-ever hybrid cloud data infrastructure, enabling unprecedented consolidation and self-service workflows across private and public clouds. Your application, analytics, and infrastructure teams can manage data across complex workflows with the simplicity and control of a single global namespace. All this is enabled by the Elastifile Cloud File System–a breakthrough application-level distributed file/object system. This elastic, scale-out software-defined solution brings

    Combining the availability and data services of enterprise storage with the agility, multi-tenancy and cost-efficiency of webscale architecture, Elastifile delivers flash performance to any and all consolidated workloads, dramatically reducing CAPEX and OPEX for enterprises and service providers.

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    Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 3rd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 9 reviews while Elastifile is ranked 23rd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Elastifile is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Useful for storing details of projects and has an easy configuration". On the other hand, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Elastifile is most compared with WekaFS, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Red Hat Ceph Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale.

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