Amazon
announced new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage
classes that reduce storage costs by 47% compared to existing Amazon EFS
storage classes, while delivering the same features and benefits. One
Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability
Zone (AZ) and are ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file
storage options for workloads and applications that do not require the
level of availability and durability offered by regional Amazon EFS
storage classes that redundantly store data across multiple
geographically separated AZs. With One Zone storage classes for Amazon
EFS there are no minimum commitments or up-front fees, and customers pay
only for the amount of file system storage used. To get started with
One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS visit http://aws.amazon.com/efs/.
Customers
use Amazon EFS as a simple, serverless, elastic file system with AWS
(and on-premises via AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN) for a broad range of
workloads. Traditionally, Amazon EFS storage classes (EFS Standard and
EFS Standard-Infrequent Access) store data across multiple,
geographically-separated AZs that comprise an AWS Region to offer the
highest level of availability and durability. Customers use Amazon EFS
for their business critical applications like SAP and Oracle; however,
there are some workloads (e.g. content management, developer
applications, etc.) that do not require the multi-AZ availability and
durability provided by Amazon EFS's existing storage classes. As a
result, these customers either end up paying for more durability and
availability than their applications may require, or customers choose to
deploy self-managed file systems for these kinds of workloads
(resulting in a higher TCO and more time spent on management).
With
new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS, customers now have the
choice of a simple, serverless, fully managed file system that runs in a
single AZ, and that costs 47% less than regional Amazon EFS storage
classes. One Zone storage classes allow customers to achieve a blended
storage price of $0.043/GB-month, while also offering higher
availability and durability than self-managed file systems. One Zone
storage classes provide these lower costs while delivering the same
elasticity and scalability benefits of Amazon EFS Standard and EFS
Standard-Infrequent Access, as well as features like lifecycle
management, and integration with AWS compute services, including Amazon
Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
(EKS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. One Zone storage classes are ideal
for developer workloads like build and staging environments, and
applications like analytics, simulation, and media transcoding that do
not require the highest levels of availability and durability of
regional Amazon EFS storage classes. One Zone storage classes are also
ideal for storing replicas, secondary copies of data residing
on-premises, data that can be easily recreated, and data used by
applications with built-in replication and high availability features.
One Zone for Amazon EFS offers two storage classes (One Zone and One
Zone-Infrequent Access). One Zone file systems are configured with a
Lifecycle Management policy of 30 days to automatically and
transparently move less frequently used files to the One Zone-Infrequent
Access storage class, delivering 92% additional savings on storage
costs compared to One Zone storage class.
"When
we set out to build Amazon EFS, we designed it with multi-Availability
Zone redundancy to deliver the highest levels of durability and
availability. We've also heard from customers that they'd like a lower
cost file storage option for workloads that have lower resiliency
requirements," said Wayne Duso, Vice President of File, Edge, and Data
Services, AWS. "Our new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS reduce
storage costs by almost 50% compared to regional Amazon EFS storage
classes, giving our customers an even less expensive file storage option
to meet a range of various workloads."
All
Amazon EFS storage classes are designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's)
durability. Amazon EFS regional storage classes are designed to provide
99.99% (4 9's) availability, while One Zone for Amazon EFS is designed
to provide 99.9% (3 9's) availability. For added data protection, Amazon
EFS file systems in One Zone storage classes are automatically backed
up using AWS Backup, and can be restored to any AZ within a Region, or
copied to a different Region. Amazon EFS One Zone storage classes are
available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N.
California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific
(Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific
(Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland),
Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Africa
(Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), and all AWS GovCloud (US) regions,
with more regions coming soon.
Headquartered
in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial
products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial
clients through a variety of channels. "Our engineering teams are
focused on creating great customer experiences, and they rely on the
simplicity and reliability of Amazon EFS for their file system needs,"
said Andrew Peskin, Director Software Engineering, Cloud and
Connectivity, Capital One. "Amazon EFS One Zone will give us additional,
lower-cost options for new development, pre-production and test
workloads, helping us focus our time, money and energy on developing
innovative solutions for our customers instead of managing file storage
infrastructure."
One
of the world's largest human genomic research efforts, The Regeneron
Genetics Center is working to rapidly accelerate the development of new
therapies for people facing life-threatening conditions. "Every day we
are challenged to make scientific discoveries as quickly as possible to
help address some of health's biggest challenges," said Jeffrey Reid,
Vice President at Regeneron and Chief Data Officer at the Regeneron
Genetics Center. "Speed, simplicity, and elasticity matter to our
scientists, who work collaboratively on homegrown technologies to
translate science into medicine. Amazon EFS delivers on its promise and
empowers our team to accelerate their research. Further, Amazon EFS One
Zone addresses the needs of many of our research workloads and helps us
optimize on storage costs without losing the Amazon EFS features we
depend on."
Qube
Research & Technologies Limited is a technology driven firm
implementing a scientific approach to financial investment. "When you're
a quantitative investment manager that relies on combining data,
research and trading expertise to deliver quality returns to your
investors, getting the best value out of your own technology
infrastructure is critical," said Jon Fautley, Cloud Engineer at QRT.
"Amazon EFS One Zone allows us to choose additional savings of 47% for
HPC analytics workloads that don't require regional resilience, with all
the EFS capabilities that we know and love. Data powers QRT's
innovation dynamic, and EFS One Zone allows us to more efficiently
onboard, analyze and evaluate data to deliver high quality returns for
our customers."
Funambol
is a leading provider of cloud solutions to mobile operators and other
service providers, with solutions deployed in 50 countries across
hundreds of millions of end users. "Funambol's goal is to enable service
providers to get to market quickly, with white label solutions for
personal cloud, business cloud, IOT, and business intelligence," said
Stefano Nichele, Director of Operations for Funambol. "Our customers
count on us to provide reliability, performance, and security for the
services we deliver across a wide range of devices, from content
management to computer vision. We love the elasticity and simplicity of
Amazon EFS, and Amazon EFS One Zone provides the perfect set of
capabilities, at the right price, to allow us to develop and deploy new
media processing workflows and products for our customers."
Since
1986, Murex has developed powerful financial technology solutions and
spurred growth and innovation in capital markets. "More than 57,000
daily users around the globe rely on our platform for trading, hedging,
funding, risk management, or processing operations," said Arnaud de
Chavagnac, head of cloud, technology and services marketing at Murex.
"We are excited about Amazon EFS One Zone and evaluating the TCO and
performance impact it can deliver as part of our mission-critical MX.3
platform. The platform requires highly responsive storage technology to
execute computation-intensive tasks such as pricing, market risk and xVA
management for our customers, including global sell-side financial
institutions, local banks, asset managers, hedge funds, large
corporations, and energy utilities."