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Introduction to Amazon Elastic File System

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Introduction to Amazon EFS
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Course Introduction
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Course Introduction
Difficulty
Beginner
Duration
7m
Students
24
Description

This course explores the Amazon Elastic File System, commonly known as EFS, which is considered file-level storage, able to support multiple EC2 instances at once, and is optimized for low latency access.

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Learning Objectives

The objective of this course is to provide you with a foundational understanding of the Amazon Elastic File System and how it fits into the storage architecture of AWS.

Intended Audience

  • Storage engineers responsible for maintaining, managing, and administering file-level storage 
  • IT professionals preparing for either the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam or one of the three associate-level certifications
  • Those who are starting their AWS journey and want to understand the various services that exist and their use cases

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should be familiar with the basic concepts of AWS and its core components, such as EC2 connectivity and configuration.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this course which will introduce you to the Amazon Elastic File System - commonly known as EFS.  EFS is considered file-level storage, able to support multiple EC2 instances at once, and is optimized for low latency access. 

Before we start, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott, I'm one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, specializing in AWS, Amazon Web Services. Feel free to connect with me with any questions using the details shown on the screen. Alternatively, you can also get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com.

The objective of this course is to provide you with a foundational understanding of the Amazon Elastic File System and how it fits into the storage architecture of AWS

This course has been created for:

  • Storage engineers responsible for maintaining, managing and administering file-level storage 
  • IT professionals preparing for either the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam or one of the three Associate-level certifications
  • Those who are starting their AWS journey and want to understand the various services that exist and their use cases

To get the most from this course, you should be familiar with the basic concepts of AWS as well as with some of its core components, such as EC2 connectivity and configuration

Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy are valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could send an email to support@cloudacademy.com

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.