Introduction to Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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

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