To add to the comparison: (burst)read/write-performance on EFS depends on gathered credits. Gathering of credits depends on the amount of data you store on it. More date -> more credits. That means that when you only need a few GB of storage which is read or written often you will run out of credits very soon and througphput drops to about 50kb/s. The only way to fix this (in my case) was to add large dummy files to increase the rate credits are earned. However more storage -> more cost.