# Amazon Efs Elastic File System

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-efs-elastic-file-system
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-efs-elastic-file-system.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-efs-elastic-file-system/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://amazon.com
- **Slug:** amazon-efs-elastic-file-system
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The only serverless, fully elastic file system in AWS that supports the NFS protocol without requiring manual scaling or capacity planning.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is designed to be highly resilient, scaling on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, and growing and shrinking automatically as files are added and removed.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:** Managed NFS file storage service.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based (Pay for storage used and throughput)
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Enterprise IT, DevOps, Cloud Architects, Data Scientists
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Amazon FSx
  - Azure Files / Azure NetApp Files
  - Google Cloud Filestore
  - NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

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