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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a managed cloud storage service, accessed using the NFS protocol version 4.1.

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NFS mount across EC2 instances as alternative to EFS

I'm configuring an application to run in AWS in "full-framework" deployment. One aspect of this deployment requires each server to be able to see a common storage location. They recommend using a WebDAV server, but we'd prefer to use some kind of…
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Amazon EFS as code repository for auto-scaled EC2s

tl;dr: I need to set up a fast automatic sync from EFS to multiple EC2s I've set up an EC2 Auto-Scaling Group in AWS and I'm looking for the best way to manage code deployments to my instances, with as little service interruption as possible…
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wget hangs/freezes when downloading file into NFS

I'm running some experiments with Amazon EFS (General purpose) and EC2 and I have the issue that EFS seems to act unstable. Commands that involve the mounted file system would hang or freeze. For example, wget (file of 8gb) downloads a file at…
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"No space left on device" reported; trying to transfer files to EFS through EC2 instance via SCP

My setup is based on this article: https://parall.ax/blog/view/3212/how-to-run-scalable-wordpress-on-aws-amazon-web-services-tutorial I.e. Wordpress hosting via Elastic Beanstalk with a separate RDS instance and and handling file serving/uploads via…
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any way to speed up mapped EFS share in Windows?

We just got an AWS account, and I was testing EFS. I created an EFS, mounted it on a Amazon Linux instance, and set it up to be shared in samba. I was then able to map the share as a drive in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012, but everything…
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PHP OpCache on Amazon EFS

Looking for some validation of my thought process here. I don't have the stats to hand to back up my claims, but have enough experience with web hosting with and without EFS to be comfortbale in making it. A Joomla or WordPress PHP site being served…
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Hanging Apache requests using Ubuntu AMI on EFS volume

I noticed a strange behaviour on the setup that I created on AWS (eu-south-1 region) to evaluate the migration from our current provider. I want to deploy 1-n EC2 instances that serves web requests through Apache, serving files stored on a common…
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Root has no write permission to EFS volume

I created a new EFS volume and mounted it with the EFS mount helper. Here is the /etc/fstab: LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 defaults,discard 0 0 fs-deadbeef:/ /mnt/efs efs _netdev,tls 0 0 The mount completed successfully; however root does…
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Mounting EKS EFS with CSI Times Out before Pod Comes Up

I am using EKS with Kubernetes version 1.15 and when I create a Storageclass, Persistent-Volume, Persistent-Volume-Claim, and Deployment the pod fails with: Warning FailedAttachVolume 71s (x2 over 3m11s) attachdetach-controller …
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Why does df say my EFS disk has a capacity of 8 Exabytes?

This is a screenshot from my AWS EC2 instance, which the EFS disk is mounted on: How can this be?
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No route to host when trying to mount EFS on an EC2 instance

I am getting this output when running a mount -av on my EC2 instance: I already have the allow incoming in the security group for the IP of EFS and the allow for the IP of the EC2 in the security group attached to the EFS. I don't and can't have DNS…
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How To Save NextCloud Files to EFS

So i have a nextcloud server in an EC2 instance, i have an EFS mounted to it but im not sure how to make nextcloud save the files on the EFS instead of EC2. Are there any guides or tutorials out there that shows you how to do such a thing? Any help…
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Where do I store data in AWS AutoScaling Group?

I have been using the Bitnami multi-tier WordPress stack on AWS. I know how to use autoscaling on AWS, but none of the documentation has showed me where to store changeable data files when using something like WordPress. The database is on RDS, so…
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What is the difference between "Amazon Storage Gateway" and another storages?

I use "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" and I think about share storage with more instances "Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)". Data grows by client usage, and may be searched in those data. Obviously I should use "Elastic File System (EFS)", but their pricing…
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Are there any benefits of using a dedicated NFS box on EC2 to using EFS directly?

Basically, since we have a bunch of EC2 instances that require a central attached drive, an NFS box was setup (this was before EFS was available in our zone). Is there any reason to (or not to) switch to EFS in this case?
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