Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

Organizations face significant challenges when modernizing or moving their applications to the cloud when they require a shared persistent file system interface. In this course, you learn about building an Amazon EFS architecture through availability and durability, performance mode selection, and AWS integrations. After learning about the design you’ll move to deployment. Deployment topics include Amazon EFS file system setup, using the AWS console, and selecting the appropriate lifecycle mode to optimize costs for your Amazon EFS deployment.

• Course level: Advanced
• Duration: 80 minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Implement an Amazon EFS persistent file storage solutions for hybrid, cloud, serverless, and containerized compute workloads.
• Use the AWS console and command line interfaces to manage Amazon EFS file system connections to compute resources.
• Explain the architecture and implementation differences between EFS Standard and EFS One Zone storage classes.
• Indicate how Amazon EFS integrates with other AWS services

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud Architects
• Storage Administrators
• Application Developers
• Data Scientists

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Amazon EFS Primer
• General AWS knowledge (Cloud Practitioner Essentials)
• Knowledge of Amazon EC2 and virtualization

Course outline

Course Overview

Section 1: Architecting an Amazon EFS Solution

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Architecting a Solution
• Lesson 2: Amazon EFS Architecture
• Lesson 3: Amazon EFS Availability and Durability
• Lesson 4: Amazon EFS Performance Mode Selection Planning
• Lesson 5: Amazon EFS Integrations with Other AWS Services

Section 2: Deploying an Amazon EFS Solution

• Lesson 1: Introduction Deploying a Solution
• Lesson 2: Amazon EFS File System Setup
• Lesson 3: Attach an Amazon EFS File System

Knowledge Check

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