Topics. Troubleshooting AMI and Kernel Versions To troubleshoot issues related to certain Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or kernel versions when using Amazon EFS from an Amazon EC2 instance, see. Installing the amazon-efs-utils Package To mount your Amazon EFS file system on your Amazon EC2 instance, we recommend that you use the mount helper in the amazon-efs-utils package.

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The amazon-efs-utils package is an open-source collection of Amazon EFS tools. For more information, see. Mounting with the EFS Mount Helper You can mount an Amazon EFS file system on a number of clients using the Amazon EFS mount helper.

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The following sections, you can find the mount helper process for the different types of clients. An Amazon EFS file system ID – After you create an Amazon EFS file system, you can get that file system's ID from the console or programmatically through the Amazon EFS API. This ID is in this format: fs-12345678. An Amazon EFS mount target – You create mount targets in your VPC. If you create your file system in the console, you create your mount targets at the same time. For more information, see.

An Amazon EC2 instance running a supported distribution of Linux – The supported Linux distributions for mounting your file system with the mount helper are Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2017.09 and newer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and derivatives such as CentOS) version 7 and newer, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and newer. The Amazon EFS mount helper installed – The mount helper is a tool in amazon-efs-utils. For information on how to install amazon-efs-utils, see. To mount your Amazon EFS file system with the mount helper. Access the terminal for your instance through Secure Shell (SSH), and log in with the appropriate user name. For more information on how to do this, see in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances. Run the following command to mount your file system.

Note We recommend that you wait 90 seconds after creating a mount target before you mount your file system. This wait lets the DNS records propagate fully in the AWS Region where the file system is. Mounting on Your On-Premises Linux Client with the EFS Mount Helper over AWS Direct Connect and VPN You can mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your on-premises data center servers when connected to your Amazon VPC with AWS Direct Connect or VPN. Mounting your Amazon EFS file systems with amazon-efs-utils also makes mounting simpler with the mount helper and allows you to enable encryption of data in transit. To see how to use amazon-efs-utils with AWS Direct Connect and VPN to mount Amazon EFS file systems onto on-premises Linux clients, see.