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Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) has significantly increased its performance capabilities, now supporting up to 2.5 million read IOPS and 500,000 write IOPS per file system.

  • Performance increase is 10x over previous limits
  • Targets data-intensive workloads like ML research, multi-tenant SaaS, and genomics
  • Supports applications requiring millions of IOPS and tens of GiB per second throughput
  • Available for new EFS General Purpose file systems using Elastic Throughput mode
  • Accessible in all AWS commercial regions except China

Users can request an IOPS limit increase through the Amazon EFS Service Quota console and create file systems using the EFS Console, API, or AWS CLI.



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