Mounting with on-premises Linux clients using the EFS mount helper, AWS Direct Connect and VPN - Amazon Elastic File System

Mounting with on-premises Linux clients using the EFS mount helper, AWS Direct Connect and VPN

You can mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your on-premises data center servers when connected to your Amazon VPC with AWS Direct Connect or VPN. The following graphic shows a high-level schematic diagram of the AWS services required in mounting Amazon EFS file systems from on-premises.

Diagram showing Amazon EFS works with AWS Direct Connect to mount an EFS file system from an on-premises client.

For more information about how to use amazon-efs-utils with AWS Direct Connect and VPN to mount Amazon EFS file systems onto on-premises Linux clients, see Walkthrough: Create and mount a file system on-premises with AWS Direct Connect and VPN.