Yesterday AWS announced a limited preview of an intriguing new product, the Elastic File Service (EFS), and we congratulate AWS on this important milestone.
AWS disclosed that EFS costs $0.30/GB/month and offers an NFS-only service to EC2 instances in a VPC. So how does Zadara NAS as a Service at AWS compare? Now is a good time to recap some of the features that Zadara offers with our File service:
- Both NFS and CIFS (SMB) access with LDAP and Active Directory integration
- Dedicated physical drives for total performance and security
- Encryption of data at rest with customer-owned keys
- Cross-region replication
- Snapshots with lifecycle policies
- Thin provisioned clones
- Hybrid and multi-cloud:
On-premises <–> AWS <–> Microsoft Azure replication - Choice of all-SSD, high performance shares or high capacity SATA drives
- SSD caching of all NFS and SMB volumes
- RAID level selection
- Available in 6 AWS regions
- Starting at $0.08/GB/month
EFS isn’t publicly available yet so we can’t do a detailed comparison but we will as soon as EFS becomes widely available.
Learn more about Zadara’s on-demand SAN & NAS at AWS.
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