Amazon EFS file systems now support up to 1.5 GiB/s of throughput per client, a 3x increase over the previous limit of 500 MiB/s. With this launch, you now have a simpler way to run throughput-intensive file workloads on AWS.

Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that simplifies setting up and running file workloads in the AWS cloud. Starting today, Amazon EFS file systems can now deliver up to 1.5 GiB/s of throughput to a single Amazon EC2 instance or Amazon EKS pod. This performance boost especially benefits throughput-intensive workloads – such as financial analytics, genomics, and video transcoding – that drive high levels of throughput from one or many individual clients. With this launch, you can process data up to 3x faster on Amazon EFS, meaning you can deliver insights more quickly and with lower compute costs.

This increased per-client throughput limit is available for all file systems using the EFS Elastic Throughput mode and mounted using the latest version of the Amazon EFS client (amazon-efs-utils) or the Amazon EFS CSI Driver (aws-efs-csi-driver). This performance increase is supported in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost. To learn more,ENnbsp;see the EFS Documentation.