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Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Understanding EFS

An Amazon EBS volume can be created and attached to an EC2 instance, but usually, it is not meant for many instances to share. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file system storage that can be shared among many EC2 instances on the AWS Cloud and servers on-premises. With only a couple of clicks, we can create and share Amazon EFS to EC2 instances easily. Here are the detailed steps:

  1. Create an Amazon EFS filesystem

Log into the AWS console, go to the EFS service, and create a filesystem, as shown in Figure 2.8:

Figure 2.8 – Create the Amazon EFS filesystem (1)

Figure 2.8 – Create the Amazon EFS filesystem (1)

I. Click "Create file system":

In the pop-up window, provide a name for the EFS filesystem and choose a storage class: a One Zone EFS filesystem stores data at the AZ level, and a standard filesystem stores data redundantly across multiple AZs in the same region. Note that there is no need to specify the size of the EFS filesystem since...

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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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