The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required. The product's technical support team takes time to resolve our company's queries related to the product, making it an area where improvements are required.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2024-03-06T14:45:53Z
Mar 6, 2024
When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them. We raised the concern to the support team when we got the issue. We got the resolution, but it took more time than expected.
Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS. To address this, we experimented with external solutions like NetApp's file system on Amazon's marketplace. In some aspects, we found that on-premises solutions performed better. In terms of additional services, there is no need as Amazon has everything.
Information Technology Specialist at Infiniti Creation
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-03T09:44:38Z
Aug 3, 2023
There are many customers using either Windows or Linux. Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product. I would like to see more features for Windows desktops since, if we look at our clients, most of them are using Windows and their desktops and not Linux. Even small customers or small companies are prepared to go with a Windows desktop or computer. On Windows, if there is a requirement for a file system, then Amazon NFS is the most preferable method in major cases. The solution needs to have more features to support Windows OS, along with the need to have more security-related features introduced in the solution while being an easily customizable solution for its customers. I would like the solution's stability to be improved.
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The solution's deployment process could be faster while installing Python packages. If the Python environment is also maintained in the EFS, then installing modules takes forever to complete. Thus, we had to maintain the package environment outside of EFS, like within the EC2 instance it is mounted to.
The user activity needs to be more connected and not required to connect to a PC or a device. It would be good to have remote access to a client, like OneDrive that we can share with other.
Customer Engagement, Presales and GIS Solution Architect at ESRI INDIA
Real User
2020-03-30T07:58:00Z
Mar 30, 2020
It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to. We help create direct connectors to the cloud storage so we can just connect them like any regular databases. We just connect them then store it.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.
When mounted to Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon EFS file...
The performance should improve. That's what we expect. So increase the performance and decrease the latency.
The platform's connectivity could be improved to be more comparable to S3 buckets, which offer better API availability.
The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required. The product's technical support team takes time to resolve our company's queries related to the product, making it an area where improvements are required.
When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them. We raised the concern to the support team when we got the issue. We got the resolution, but it took more time than expected.
Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS. To address this, we experimented with external solutions like NetApp's file system on Amazon's marketplace. In some aspects, we found that on-premises solutions performed better. In terms of additional services, there is no need as Amazon has everything.
There are many customers using either Windows or Linux. Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product. I would like to see more features for Windows desktops since, if we look at our clients, most of them are using Windows and their desktops and not Linux. Even small customers or small companies are prepared to go with a Windows desktop or computer. On Windows, if there is a requirement for a file system, then Amazon NFS is the most preferable method in major cases. The solution needs to have more features to support Windows OS, along with the need to have more security-related features introduced in the solution while being an easily customizable solution for its customers. I would like the solution's stability to be improved.
The solution's deployment process could be faster while installing Python packages. If the Python environment is also maintained in the EFS, then installing modules takes forever to complete. Thus, we had to maintain the package environment outside of EFS, like within the EC2 instance it is mounted to.
The user activity needs to be more connected and not required to connect to a PC or a device. It would be good to have remote access to a client, like OneDrive that we can share with other.
It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances.
It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to. We help create direct connectors to the cloud storage so we can just connect them like any regular databases. We just connect them then store it.