Amazon EFS Is Accessible In Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Amazon EFS offers an easy, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads to utilize with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Amazon EFS is simple to operate and gives an easy interface which enables you to build and configure file systems faster and easier. EFS is created to give extremely parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, allowing your applications to get great levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with stable low latencies. Amazon EFS is an entirely organized service which do not need any modification to your current applications and tools, offering access via a standard file system interface for smooth integration. There is a Standard and an Infrequent Access storage class available with Amazon EFS. Amazon EFS is perfect option to help a wide range of use cases from most parallelized, scale-out workloads which need the highest feasible throughput to single-threaded, latency-sensitive workloads. Use cases like lift-and-shift business-critical applications, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, and container storage. Now this Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is accessible in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Refer Amazon EFS to read further about EFS and to get full list where Amazon EES is available, click AWS Region Table.

Third Availability Zone Added By AWS To The Asia Pacific - Mumbai Region

Amazon cloud computing resources are stored in different locations across global. These locations are collaboration of AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Every AWS Region are located in different geographic areas. And each AWS Region has several, remote locations known as Availability Zones. Availability Zones located in AWS Regions contains one or more individual data centers, all of which has redundant power, networking, and connectivity, and is housed in separate facilities. Each AZ has various internet connections and power connections to multiple grids. Now, AWS adds a new Availability Zone to the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to serve an increasing rate of users and expanding utilization of the Region. This new third availability zone offers users with extra flexibility to design and configure scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available applications in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and will give assistance to further AWS services in India. With this new addition of AZ, the AWS global AZ total to 65 AZs within 21 geographic Regions across the globe.