Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a managed cloud storage service, accessed using the NFS protocol version 4.1.
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Mounting EFS Volume in Non available region
Is there any way to mount EFS volume to multiple instances in Mumbai Region. EFS service is currently not available in Mumbai region.Or is there any other service which i can use instead of EFS. I need to mount sigle disk space to multiple instance

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Migrating EFS across regions
Have an EFS with two mount targets in US-N.California region and I need to move all the data over to US-Oregon region. Would appreciate any inputs around that.

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Mount NFS4 share as different user
I have an AWS EFS NFS4 share (shareA) that is mounted by some servers where all files are owned by userA/uid=800. I'd like to mount that share onto the b-series servers, configured to look like userB/uid=900 owns all of the files. How can I do…

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The idiomatic approach to mounting "configuration" volumes on ECS?
I have a docker container that I would like to "port" to ECS. My Dockerfile contains a VOLUME instruction:
VOLUME /app/configuration
So using docker on a linux machine, you just point to the folder you would like to associate the VOLUME to either…

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Sharing mounted EFS from Linux EC2 to Windows has terrible performance
I've followed a large amount of advice in establishing an EFS share that can be accessed through windows.
The procedure is basically outlined here:
Adding EFS to Windows Tutorial
Following this, I added a large amount of dummy data (1.1 TB) as per…

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NFS not mounting on boot
I have an AWS EFS that I want my Centos 7 server to mount on boot. The line from /etc/fstab that is meant to accomplish this is:
xxxxxxx.efs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:/ /mnt/EFS nfs4…

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TTFB on AWS EC2 Instance is Very Slow
I'm very new to hosting/server administration and my employer ask me to use this chance to learn and find a way to update our current hosting setup.
Our current setup was one EC2 instance that hosted multisite, it was being manage through Cpanel.
I…

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confirm efs is mounted on ec2
i would like to confirm that efs is mounted on my ec2 instance but do not know the command.
i did mount my EFS to the directory ''/data''
i think the correct command would be
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev …

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AWS EFS Backup using Datapipeline
I want to take backup of my EFS production environment.
I have setup solution as defined in walk through
with 2 EFS Production & EFS Backup
I created 4 security groups :
1) efs-mt-sg (EFS SG) & add access to efs-ec2-sg on NFS port.
2)…

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How to modify an Amazon ECS Cluster and use custom UserData to mount EFS
Need to mount EFS drive on ECS Cluster automatically on launch of container instances. Is it possible with Clusters generated with the Wizard or do I need to create an AutoScaling group?

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Why can't my ECS Fargate cluster write to my mounted EFS volume, all deployed with Terraform?
I've got a Terraform deployment that deploys a Docker image into ECS Fargate. It attaches an EFS volume to the container. When I SSH into the container, I see the volume mounted, but I am unable to write to it. All of the POSIX permissions seem…

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aws efs describe-access-points no filters?
When I run
aws efs describe-access-points --query 'AccessPoints[*].[AccessPointId]' --output table
I get back 5 different ID's.
There does not appear to be any filter options like there are for other resources.
aws efs describe-access-points…

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Mounting EC2 directory with existing data to Fargate container using EFS
I have an EC2 instance with a huge directory(ex. /large-dir) that containers need to access. Both instance and container share same network and security group. I'm able create and mount an EFS to container as well as add/remove files from the EFS…

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EC2 cannot access to EFS
Our website has mounted on 4 EC2 and 1 EFS. Sometimes EC2 servers cannot access to EFS. When I run commands like cd and ls, they are not responding when access is not available.
When I restart the server, the problem goes away.
1 or more servers…

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ECS container not starting: error looking up volume plugin amazon-ecs-volume-plugin
I have a EC2 + EFS + ECS setup on which I run a few docker containers.
My EC2 instance died, and a new one spun up, but when starting the tasks on the new instance, I get the following error message
error looking up volume plugin…

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