AWS EFS Vs EBS Vs S3 (differences & When To Use?)
Answer : One word answer: MONEY :D 1 GB to store in US-East-1: (Updated at 2016.dec.20) Glacier: $0.004/Month (Note: Major price cut in 2016) S3: $0.023/Month S3-IA (announced in 2015.09): 0.0125 / M o n t h ( + 0.0125/Month (+ 0.0125/ M o n t h ( + 0.01/gig retrieval charge) EBS: $0.045-0.1/Month (depends on speed - SSD or not) + IOPS costs EFS: $0.3/Month Further storage options, which may be used for temporary storing data while/before processing it: SNS SQS Kinesis stream DynamoDB, SimpleDB The costs above are just samples. There can be differences by region, and it can change at any point. Also there are extra costs for data transfer (out to the internet). However they show a ratio between the prices of the services . There are a lot more differences between these services: EFS is: Generally Available (out of preview), but may not yet be available in your region Network filesystem (that means it may have bigger latency but it c...