A city GIS team shares home directories on Amazon EFS. Analysts open thousands of small map tiles and config files, not a few large sequential streams. Which EFS configuration choice best matches that access pattern?
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Short Explanation
Lots of little GIS files feel like opening a thousand sticky notes, not streaming one movie. General Purpose performance mode is the EFS default for latency-sensitive, many-small-file workloads. Max I/O trades higher latency for aggregate scale; One Zone plus a single client, or prematurely aging hot scratch to IA, misses the pattern.
Full Explanation
Amazon EFS General Purpose performance mode is optimized for lower latency and is the recommended choice for the majority of file workloads, including many small files such as GIS home-directory content. Max I/O targets highly parallelized workloads that can tolerate higher per-operation latency. Lifecycle to Infrequent Access and One Zone constraints are separate decisions and should not be used to force a mismatched performance profile for hot interactive files.