AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

How does it work?

EFS works in a very simple and minimalistic way, so as to reduce the amount of configurations that you need to perform and manage as an end user. To start off, EFS provides you with the ability to create one or more filesystems. Each filesystem can be mounted to an instance or instances, and data can be read as well as written to them. Mounting the filesystem requires your instances to have support for the Network File System version 4.0 and 4.1 (NFSv4) protocol. Most Linux operating systems come with the necessary support, however, you may have to install the NFS client on these machines if it is not there to connect to an EFS. So, how is this useful for our WordPress application? Well, for starters, once you have an Amazon ...