# Amazon EFS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-efs/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources. EFS is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files.

## Kin Score — 53.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.1 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 59.2 |
| Access Clarity | 59.2 |

## Agent readiness — 42.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **Amazon EFS 2015 02 01 API** — The 2015 02 01 API from Amazon EFS — 3 operation(s) for 2015 02 01.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Efs Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 3 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Efs Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Efs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Efs Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Efs Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Efs Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Containerized Application Storage** — Persistent shared storage for containerized applications running on ECS or EKS.
- **Machine Learning** — Shared training data storage accessible simultaneously by multiple compute instances.
- **Content Management** — Shared file storage for web servers and CMS platforms requiring concurrent file access.
- **DevOps and Code Sharing** — Centralized code and configuration storage accessible by development teams and CI/CD pipelines.
- **Big Data Analytics** — High-throughput shared storage for analytics workloads requiring parallel data access.

## Tags

Amazon Web Services, EFS, Elastic File System, File Storage, NFS, Serverless, Storage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-efs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.