AWS Classroom notes 21/Jan/2024

Network File shares

• AWS has EFS (Elastic File Share) which provides fileshares over network and works with linux instances
• For windows shares and third party shares AWS has FSx.

Create an elastic file share

• Create an security group to open all internal communication with in vpc
• Create an elastic file share
• Create 2 ec2 instances(linux distributions)
• Refer Here to mount efs on linux
• Lets mount the volume using nfs client

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nfs-common -y
sudo mkdir /projects
sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport fs-0b8d3b6a8d03333c2.efs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:/ /projects

• Fsx has third party file systems which implement
  • Windows file shares
  • Netapp
  • OpenZFS
  • Lustre

Storage Gateways

• Refer Here for official docs