Create an Amazon EFS File System and Mount to an EC2 Instance
This walkthrough shows how to create and mount a Network File System in your EC2 Linux instances with EFS — Elastic File System
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5 min readOct 7, 2020
In the following article, I described an overview of the storage options when using AWS.
As mentioned, EFS — Elastic File System — is a Network File System that can be created and mounted to EC2 instances.
One of the advantages of EFS is that you don't need to provision the size, as you would need to do with a disk drive (ESB), and you can mount it in several EC2 Linus instances at the same time, making it an easy way to share files between these EC2 instances.
So let's check the steps on how to create and mount the EFS.
Creating an EFS
To create an EFS, you need to access the menu Services -> Storage -> EFS -> File System.
