EFS – access from other VPCs / Accounts

[sharathbabu-krishnarao]

I was going over this comparison between EFS/S3/EBS

https://tutorialsdojo.com/amazon-s3-vs-ebs-vs-efs/

For “Data Accessing” – I see, for EFS “One to thousands of Ec2 Instances or on-prem servers from multiple AZs, regions, VPCs and accounts concurrently”

But for “service endpoint” – I see for EFS “Accessed within One’s VPC

I feel both are contradicting each other, can you please clarify this?

Thanks

Sharathbabu

[Carlo-TutorialsDojo]

Hello Sharathbabu,

Thanks for posting your question.

The service endpoint is the URL entry point to an AWS Service. The comparison that’s being made on the “service endpoint” section of the cheat sheet is whether the service is publicly accessible or only accessible thru VPC.

EBS and EFS can only be accessed within a VPC. S3 can be both accessed via a public endpoint or within a VPC.

Let me know if this answers your question.

Regards,

Carlo.