[tidepod12]

Dunno your exact requirements or when you last tried it, but they did boost EFS's read speed (they claim by 400% [1]) as of this April, so it might be worth looking into again if you're still trying to find a solution.

1: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/amazon-el...

[spullara]

That is great to know, thanks. It was pretty unusable the last time I tried it.