diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 162832e..2654ef1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -606,16 +606,16 @@ S3 ### Storage Durability, Availability, and Price -As an illustration of comparative features and price, the table below gives S3 Standard, RRS, IA, in comparison with [Glacier](#glacier), [EBS](#ebs), and EFS, using Virginia region as of August 2016. (Sources: S3 [pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), [SLA](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/), [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/), [RRS info](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy/), [Glacier pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/), [EBS pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/), [EFS pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/pricing/), [EC2 SLA](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/).) +As an illustration of comparative features and price, the table below gives S3 Standard, RRS, IA, in comparison with [Glacier](#glacier), [EBS](#ebs), and [EFS](#efs), using Virginia region as of August 2016. (Sources: S3 [pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), [SLA](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/), [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/), [RRS info](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy/), [Glacier pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/), [EBS pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/), [EFS pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/pricing/), [EC2 SLA](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/).) -| | Durability (per year) | Availability “designed” | Availability SLA | Storage (per TB per month) | GET or retrieve (per million) | Write or archive (per million) | -|-------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| -| Glacier | Eleven 9s | Sloooow | – | $7 | $50 | $50 | -| S3 IA | Eleven 9s | 99.9% | 99% | $12.50 | $1 | $10 | -| S3 RRS | 99.99% | 99.99% | 99.9% | $24 | $0.40 | $5 | -| S3 Standard | Eleven 9s | 99.99% | 99.9% | $30 | $0.40 | $5 | -| EBS | 99.8% | Unstated | 99.95% | $100 and up | | | -| EFS | “High” | “High” | – | $300 | | | +| | Durability (per year) | Availability “designed” | Availability SLA | Storage (per TB per month) | GET or retrieve (per million) | Write or archive (per million) | +|-----------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| +| **Glacier** | Eleven 9s | Sloooow | – | $7 | $50 | $50 | +| **S3 IA** | Eleven 9s | 99.9% | 99% | $12.50 | $1 | $10 | +| **S3 RRS** | 99.99% | 99.99% | 99.9% | $24 | $0.40 | $5 | +| **S3 Standard** | Eleven 9s | 99.99% | 99.9% | $30 | $0.40 | $5 | +| **EBS** | 99.8% | Unstated | 99.95% | $100 and up | | | +| **EFS** | “High” | “High” | – | $300 | | | EC2 --- @@ -762,6 +762,22 @@ EBS - 🔸EBS has an [**SLA**](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/) with **99.95%** uptime. See notes on high availability below. - ❗EBS volumes have a [**volume type**](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html) indicating the physical storage type. The types called “standard” (**st1** or **sc1**) actually old spinning-platter disks, which deliver only hundreds of IOPS — not what you want unless you’re really trying to cut costs. Modern SSD-based **gp2** or **io1** are typically the options you want. +EFS +--- + +- 📒 [Homepage](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/) ∙ [User guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug) ∙ [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/faq/) ∙ [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/pricing/) + +### EFS Basics + +- 🐥**EFS** is Amazon’s new (general release 2016) network filesystem. +- It is similar to [EBS](#ebs) in that it is a network-attached drive, but it [differs in important ways](https://aws.amazon.com/efs/details/): + - It can be attached to many instances (up to thousands), when EBS can only be attached to one drive. It does this via [NFSv4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System). + - It can offers higher thoughput (multiple gigabytes per second), higher latency, and likely better durability and availability than EBS (see [the comparison table](#storage-durability-availability-and-price)). + - It cannot be used as a boot volume or in certain other ways EBS can. + - It costs much more than EBS (up to three times as much). + +🚧 [*Please help expand this incomplete section.*](CONTRIBUTING.md) + Load Balancers --------------