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Reduce Storage Costs with EFS

In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to centralize storage across multiple Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). You’ll create a new EFS file system within a specified VPC, mount it on your EC2 instances, and migrate existing data from local EBS volumes to EFS. You’ll also update /etc/fstab so the shared file system mounts automatically on reboot, configure security group rules to allow NFS traffic, and remove the old EBS volumes to simplify your architecture and reduce storage costs.

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Beginner
Last updated
Feb 25, 2026
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Configure an Amazon EFS File System

    Create a new Amazon EFS file system within a specified VPC and understand how EFS integrates with EC2 for shared storage use cases.

  2. Challenge

    Secure Communication Between Amazon EC2 and Amazon EFS

    Configure security group rules to allow NFS traffic and ensure the EC2 instance can securely connect to the EFS mount target.

  3. Challenge

    Mount Amazon EFS and Remove Redundant EBS Volumes from EC2

    Use the NFS client on EC2 to mount Amazon EFS and eliminate redundant EBS volumes while maintaining persistent file access.

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