An application requires a highly available, POSIX-compliant file system that can be mounted concurrently by hundreds of EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS service meets this requirement?

Answer options:

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon S3

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

How to approach this question

Match 'POSIX-compliant', 'concurrent access', and 'multi-AZ' to the storage service.

Full Answer

C.Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)✓ Correct

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Amazon EFS provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is natively multi-AZ and POSIX-compliant.

Common mistakes

Choosing EBS, which is block storage and generally single-attach.

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