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AWS EFS vs EBS vs S3 (differences & when to use?)

I’m really confused now, if i’m not wrong everything we can do with EBS we can do it with EFS, i think it’s just the price that it’s change and the performance ?
so my question is the differences & when to use each of them ?

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EBS is a high-performance per-instance block storage system for a single EC2 instance

EFS is a highly scalable file storage system for multiple EC2 instances

S3 is an object storage system for archiving data and other data control options. It can be used with multiple services including EC2 instances.

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