AWS EC2 EFA explained and demystified by our experts. Read on to find out more. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our AWS Support Services.

Let’s look at how our AWS Support Team helped our customers learn more about AWS EFA.

All About AWS EC2 EFA

AWS EFA or Elastic Fabric Adapter is a network device that accelerates High-Performance Computing as well as machine learning applications when attached to the Amazon EC2. Furthermore, it helps attain the application performance levels of on-premises high-performance computing cluster. This is due to the flexibility, scalability, and elasticity via the AWS cloud.

Additionally, EFA offers lower & more consistent latency as well as higher throughput. On top of that, it improves the performance of inter-stance communication. This plays a huge role in scaling HPC as well as machine learning applications In fact, AWS EC2 EFA is optimized to work on the current AWS infrastructure and scale as per the application requirements.

In fact, AWS EC2 EFA is available as an elective EC2 feature. We can enable it without additional cost on any supported EC2 instance.

Benefits offered by AWS EFA

• Faster Results

  It has a unique OS bypass networking mechanism that offers a low-jitter, low-latency channel for inter-instance communications.
• Flexible configuration

  We can enable AWS EFA support on a large list of EC2 instances and choose the corresponding compute configuration for our workload. Furthermore, we do not require upfront planning or prior reservations.
• Seamless migration

  Additionally, EFA relies on libfabric APIs and libfabric interface for communications.

[Need assistance with a different issue? We are available 24/7.]

Conclusion

In brief, our skilled AWS Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to AWS EFA and its features.