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# Amazon EFS

It is a fully managed NFS file system for linux workloads

It supports data across multiple AZs and provides two different storage classes i.e., standard and infrequent access

Unlike EBS, it can be attached to multiple instances even though they are in different availability zones and even with on-prem network

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