Using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with AWS Lambda: Persistent Storage for Serverless Applications

In this lab, you learn how to quickly create and configure an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. As part of this process, you mount your file system in an AWS Cloud9 instance. Also, you will setup EFS as a shared application package repository and test a serverless video processing workflow with AWS Lambda.

Level

Advanced

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create and configure an Amazon EFS file system
• Add file system access point, and configure client permissions
• Configure an AWS Lambda function to use an EFS file system for persistent storage
• Install EFS utils client for NFS file access, and mount the file system to an AWS Cloud9 instance
• Test a serverless video processing workflow with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

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

• Basic understanding of Amazon EFS and AWS Lambda
• Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Comfortable editing scripts using an AWS Cloud9 code editor

Course Outline

• Task 1: Review the lab architecture
• Task 2: Review an Amazon EFS File System
• Task 3: Create mount target for Amazon EFS File System
• Task 4: Add File System Access Point
• Task 5: Configure an AWS Lambda function to use EFS
• Task 6: Install Amazon EFS client (amazon-efs-utils) and Mount EFS File Share in Cloud9
• Task 7: Test a serverless video processing workflow with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS.