Introduction to Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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This lab takes you through how to create an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file system, mount it to an Amazon EC2 instance, run a simple IO benchmark and examine performance characteristics in Amazon CloudWatch.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

1 Hours 30 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Log into the AWS Management Console
• Create an Amazon EFS file system
• Log into an Amazon Linux EC2 instance
• Mount your file system to your instance
• Examine and monitor the performance of your file system

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• None

Course Outline

• Task 1: Create a security group to access your Amazon EFS file system
• Task 2: Create an Amazon EFS file system
• Task 3: Connect to your Amazon EC2 instance
• Task 4: Create a new directory and mount the Amazon EFS file system
• Task 5: Examine the performance behavior of your new Amazon EFS file system