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Managing, Monitoring, and
Optimizing your Amazon Elastic
File System (Amazon EFS)
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Course objectives
This course combines interactive lessons, hands-on demonstrations, and
knowledge checks to teach students how to manage Amazon EFS effectively.
Below’s a structured breakdown aligned with the course objectives:
1. Interactive Lesson: Manage Amazon EFS File System Throughput
Objective: Understand throughput modes (Bursting vs. Provisioned) and
select the right mode for workloads.
Interactive Activity:
Scenario-Based Decision: Provide students with workload examples
(e.g., a batch processing job vs. a steady-state database).
o Task: Choose between Bursting (baseline + burst)
or Provisioned (fixed throughput) modes.
o Discussion: Justify choices based on IOPS requirements and cost
implications.
Demonstration:
AWS Console Walkthrough:
1. Navigate to EFS > File Systems > Create.
2. Show how to select Throughput Mode during setup.
, 3. Modify an existing file system’s throughput mode.
Knowledge Check:
Question:
Your analytics team runs nightly reports causing spikes in IOPS. Which
throughput mode minimizes costs while handling bursts?
Answer: Bursting Throughput (uses burst credits for temporary
spikes).
2. Interactive Lesson: Monitor Amazon EFS Health & Performance
Objective: Use CloudWatch metrics to track health, performance, and burst
credits.
Interactive Activity:
CloudWatch Dashboard Lab:
1. Students create a dashboard tracking:
PercentIOLimit (health).
BurstCreditBalance (performance).
TotalIOBytes (throughput).
2. Set alarms for BurstCreditBalance < 1M to warn of credit
depletion.
Demonstration:
Simulate Workloads:
o Use a script to generate high IOPS and show real-time metric
changes in CloudWatch.
Knowledge Check:
Question:
Which metric indicates your file system is nearing its maximum IOPS
capacity?
Answer: PercentIOLimit (values approaching 100% signal throttling).
3. Interactive Lesson: Protect Data with AWS Backup
Managing, Monitoring, and
Optimizing your Amazon Elastic
File System (Amazon EFS)
Solutions manual expert
curated questions and answers
Course objectives
This course combines interactive lessons, hands-on demonstrations, and
knowledge checks to teach students how to manage Amazon EFS effectively.
Below’s a structured breakdown aligned with the course objectives:
1. Interactive Lesson: Manage Amazon EFS File System Throughput
Objective: Understand throughput modes (Bursting vs. Provisioned) and
select the right mode for workloads.
Interactive Activity:
Scenario-Based Decision: Provide students with workload examples
(e.g., a batch processing job vs. a steady-state database).
o Task: Choose between Bursting (baseline + burst)
or Provisioned (fixed throughput) modes.
o Discussion: Justify choices based on IOPS requirements and cost
implications.
Demonstration:
AWS Console Walkthrough:
1. Navigate to EFS > File Systems > Create.
2. Show how to select Throughput Mode during setup.
, 3. Modify an existing file system’s throughput mode.
Knowledge Check:
Question:
Your analytics team runs nightly reports causing spikes in IOPS. Which
throughput mode minimizes costs while handling bursts?
Answer: Bursting Throughput (uses burst credits for temporary
spikes).
2. Interactive Lesson: Monitor Amazon EFS Health & Performance
Objective: Use CloudWatch metrics to track health, performance, and burst
credits.
Interactive Activity:
CloudWatch Dashboard Lab:
1. Students create a dashboard tracking:
PercentIOLimit (health).
BurstCreditBalance (performance).
TotalIOBytes (throughput).
2. Set alarms for BurstCreditBalance < 1M to warn of credit
depletion.
Demonstration:
Simulate Workloads:
o Use a script to generate high IOPS and show real-time metric
changes in CloudWatch.
Knowledge Check:
Question:
Which metric indicates your file system is nearing its maximum IOPS
capacity?
Answer: PercentIOLimit (values approaching 100% signal throttling).
3. Interactive Lesson: Protect Data with AWS Backup