045.mp4 – Elastic File System : is a NAS
- EFS a Network Attached Storage
- EFS is a NAS (Network Attached Storage; a File system) ; S3 & Glacier is a webstore ; EBS is a block
- EFS can be shared by multi EC2 instances
- EFS can grow and can shink ; Throughput scales automatically
- Pay as you go (no minimum)
- As a NAS, it support thousands of connections
- Multi AZ replication
After being mounted as Mount Target, it will be shown as a network storage resource.
Security Control
046.mp4 – Handson on EFS
- mount EFS into certain subnet in VPC (has to be a subnet)
- Create EFS
- Launch an EC2 instance
- Security setting
From Q&A
- To load data from on-premise to EFS, you can use SCP (Secure Copy)
- For old classic EC2 not inside VPC, you can use ClassicLink to connect to EFS
- On-premise server can connect to EFS via AWS Direct Connect
