Use cases

Amazon EBS use cases:

  • Software Testing and development: Amazon EBS is connected only to a particular instance, so it is best suited for testing and development purposes.
  • Business continuity: Amazon EBS provides a good level of business consistency as users can run applications in different AWS regions and all they require is EBS Snapshots and Amazon machine images.
  • Enterprise-wide applications: EBS provides block-level storage, so it allows users to run a wide variety of applications including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, etc.
  • Transactional and NoSQL databases: As EBS provides a low level of latency so it offers an optimum level of performance for transactional and NO SQL databases. It also helps in database management.

Amazon EFS use cases:

  • Lift-and-shift application support: EFS is elastic, highly available, and highly scalable storage, and these all features and enables users to move enterprise applications easily and quickly.
  • Analytics for big data: EFS has got the ability to run big data applications.
  • Web server support: EFS is a highly robust throughput file system and is capable of enabling web serving applications, such as websites, or blogs.
  • Application development and testing: Among different storages provided by Amazon EFS is the only one that provides a shared file system needed to share code and files.

Let us see the differences in a tabular form -:

  Amazon EBS Amazon EFS
1. The full form of Amazon EBS is Amazon Elastic Block Store The full form of Amazon EFS is Amazon Elastic File System
2. It is used to provide the block-level storage volumes for the use of EC2 instances. It is simple to use.
3. It is mainly used for data that should be quickly accessible and requires long term durability. It is used in modernize application development
4.

It is suitable for both types of database-style applications -:

1. Those rely on random reads

2. Those rely on random writes.

Industries use this for enhancing content management systems

Difference Between Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS

The AWS EFS(Elastic file system) and AWS EBS(Elastic block storage) are two different types of storage services provided by Amazon Web Services. This article highlights some major differences between Amazon EFS and Amazon EBS.

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