Managing Amazon EFS file systems - Amazon Elastic File System
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Managing Amazon EFS file systems

File system management tasks refer to creating and deleting file systems and managing tags, file system backups, access, and network accessibility with mount targets of existing file systems.

You can perform these file system management tasks using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, or programmatically using the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) or API, as discussed in the following sections.

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If you are new to Amazon EFS, we recommend that you try the following exercises that provide you with first-hand end-to-end experience using an Amazon EFS file system:

  • Getting started – This exercise provides a console-based, end-to-end setup in which you create a file system, mount it on an Amazon EC2 instance, and test the setup. The console takes care of many things for you and thus helps you quickly set up the end-to-end experience.

  • Walkthrough: Create an Amazon EFS file system and mount it on an Amazon EC2 instance using the Amazon CLI – This walkthrough is similar to the Getting Started exercise, but it uses the Amazon CLI to perform most of the tasks. Because the CLI commands closely map to the Amazon EFS API, the walkthrough can help you familiarize yourself with the Amazon EFS API.