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Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput

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This article announces that Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports up to 30 GiB/s of read throughput, a 50% increase from the previous limit of 20 GiB/s.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage for running file workloads in the AWS cloud
  • The increased read throughput limit of 30 GiB/s supports throughput-intensive workloads like AI, machine learning, financial analytics, and genomic data analysis
  • The higher throughput limit is immediately available for EFS file systems using Elastic Throughput mode in certain AWS regions
  • Users can create and manage EFS file systems with the higher throughput using the AWS console, API, or CLI
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