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EFS at AWS UserGroup Stuttgart

EFS at AWS UserGroup Stuttgart

AWS Elastic File System talk at AWS UserGroup Stuttgart

Thorsten Hoeger

July 14, 2016
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  1. About EFS • Simple, scalable file storage for use with

    Amazon EC2 • Multiple Amazon EC2 instances canaccess an Amazon EFS file system at the same time • It’s designed for high availability and durability • EFS automatically scales your storage capacity up or down as you add or remove files • EFS provides a file systeminterface and file system access semantics (including file locking) • EC2 instances mount Amazon EFS file systems via the NFSv4.1 protocol
  2. About EFS • Availability • US East (N. Virginia) •

    US West (Oregon) • EU West (Ireland) • Pricing US East (N. Virginia) $0.30/GB-month US West (Oregon) $0.30/GB-month EU (Ireland) $0.33/GB-month
  3. How to use EFS? • Create Elastic File System •

    Create Mountpoints for each subnet • Install NFS tooling • yum -y install nfs-utils • Mount file systemusing standard tools • mkdir /mnt/efs • mount -t nfs4 -o vers=4.1 zone.file-system-ID.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/ /mnt/efs