IT 4100 : File Systems and Storage Technologies
Cloud - EFS
Cloud Storage - EFS
- Amazon EFS implements storage for EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the same time. It is implemented as a shared fil e system that uses the Network File System (NFS) protocol.
- Grows and shrinks automatically as you add/remove files.
- can be used with on-premises resources
Cloud Storage - EFS
- Use cases: big data and analytics, content management, web serving, home directories.
- As long as instances are in the same region
- Uses a traditional file permissions model, file-locking capabilities, and hierarchical directory structure using the NFSv4 protocol.
Cloud Storage - EFS
Standard storage classes store data within and across multiple availability zones (AZ). One Zone storage classes store data redundantly within a single AZ, at a 47% lower price compared to file systems using Standard storage classes, for workloads that don’t require multi-AZ resilience.
Cloud Storage - EFS
- Posix-compliant file storage
- means we can use traditional file permissions model (chmod, chown)
- file-locking
- hierarchy (via NFSv4 protocol)
Cloud Storage - EFS
Cloud Storage - EFS
- Can connect to on-prem site
- Demo time!