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
