Elastic File Share

• This is network file share which can be mounted on linux instances
• EFS Can be created in any region and it indirectly creates the storage in subnets/AZ’s.
• Since this is disk storage that is mounted using network, we need to configure security group as well
  
• EFS works only on linux and mac instances, To support windows, netapp, open zfs and lustre AWS uses a service called as FsX
  

Activity:

• Create two ec2 instances with amazon linux ami
• Create EFS and mount on ec2
  
• Note: Install efs-utils on linux distributions Refer Here
  
• Now mount to ec2 instances
  
  
• Now perform some checks as done in the classroom