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A notable difference is that Azure file shares have a 5 TB limit for the whole share, and a 1 TB limit on the size of any given file [1], while EFS has no limit on the size of the file system, and a 52 TB limit on the size of any given file. [2]

Disclosure, work for AWS.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sto...

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/limits.html