EBS vs EFS with EKS

Hi,

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver allows Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters to manage the lifecycle of Amazon EBS volumes for persistent volumes.

Please refer to the user guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/ebs-csi.html

Take a look at this blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/using-smb-csi-driver-on-amazon-eks-windows-nodes/

Also, you can use FSx as a solution for both Linux and Windows nodes using the above information. See also https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/using-amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-as-persistent-storage-on-amazon-eks/ for info on connecting Linux nodes to FSx.

Hope this helps.

It depends on what scenario you are referring to. EFS can also fit if you are attaching like logs with large volume of data. https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/efs-choosing-correct-throughput-mode Currently, S3 mountpoint comes out and can be utilized and S3FS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/the-inside-story-on-mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-a-high-performance-open-source-file-client/