Mounting EFS file systems
In the following sections you can learn how to mount your Amazon EFS file system
using the Amazon EFS mount helper. In addition, learn how to automatically
remount your file system after any system restarts using the
file fstab file. Using the EFS mount helper,
you have the following options for mounting your Amazon EFS file system:
Mounting on supported EC2 instances
Mounting with IAM authorization
Mounting with Amazon EFS access points
Mounting with an on-premise Linux client
Auto-mounting EFS file systems when an EC2 instance reboots
Mounting a file system when creating a new EC2 instance
Note
Amazon EFS does not support mounting from Amazon EC2 Windows instances.
The EFS mount helper is part of the amazon-efs-utils package.
The amazon-efs-utils package is an open-source
collection of Amazon EFS tools. For more information, see Manually installing the Amazon EFS client.
Before the Amazon EFS mount helper was available, we recommended mounting your Amazon EFS file systems using the standard Linux NFS client. For more information, see Mounting file systems without the EFS mount helper.
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