Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Alternatives (January 2026)

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.