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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System): Overview and Configuration Example

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a scalable and fully managed file storage service that can be easily mounted on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. It provides a simple, scalable, and highly available file system for use with both Linux and Windows instances. Here's a detailed overview of Amazon EFS along with a configuration example:

Features of Amazon EFS:

  1. File Storage:

  2. Elastic Scaling:
  3. Compatibility:
  4. High Availability:
  5. Performance Modes:
  6. Lifecycle Management:
  7. Access Control:
  8. Mount Targets:

Configuration Example:

Let's create a simple Amazon EFS file system and mount it to an Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS Management Console:

  1. Login to AWS Console:

  2. Create an Amazon EFS File System:
  3. Configure File System Access:
  4. Configure Encryption (Optional):
  5. Create File System:
  6. Mount the EFS File System on EC2 Instance:
  7. Install NFS Client (Linux):
    bash
    sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nfs-common
  8. Mount the EFS File System (Linux):
    bash
    sudo mkdir /mnt/myefs sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 <EFS-DNS-Name>:/ /mnt/myefs

    Replace <EFS-DNS-Name> with the DNS name of your EFS file system.

  9. Verify the Mount (Linux):

    bash
    df -h
  10. Use the EFS File System:
  11. Unmount and Cleanup (Optional):