Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million IOPS per file system

Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system, a 10x increase over the previous limits, making it easier to power machine learning (ML) research, multi-tenant SaaS, genomics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS.

Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads on AWS. With this launch, Amazon EFS supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system. Now, applications that demand millions of IOPS and tens of GiB per second of throughput performance, such as analytics user shares supporting hundreds of data scientists, multi-tenant SaaS applications supporting thousands of customers, and distributed applications processing petabytes of genomics data, can easily scale to achieve the required highest level of performance.

The increased IOPS limits are available for all new EFS General Purpose file systems using the Elastic Throughput mode in all AWS commercial regions, except in AWS China Regions. For new file systems, you can request an IOPS limit increase in the Amazon EFS Service Quota console. To learn more, see the Amazon EFS Documentation or create a file system using the Amazon EFS Console, API, or AWS CLI.