Overview
Simple Manager for Amazon EFS allows you to directly interact with data in your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems through a web user interface (UI). This web UI allows you to browse, upload, and download files in existing EFS file systems. For example, you can use this solution to upload a machine learning (ML) model file to an EFS file system that is used by an AWS Lambda function for ML inference. This AWS Solution provides a reference architecture, considerations for planning your deployment, and configurations steps for deploying the solution to the AWS Cloud.
Benefits
Use the web UI to browse, upload, and download files in existing EFS file systems, without specialized Linux knowledge.
Gain web access to your Amazon EFS files from any device or location.
Avoid deploying dedicated resources, (such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance), to manage your data by using a serverless architecture.
Use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (AI/ML) implementations can use this solution to host datasets in Amazon EFS file systems and run inference algorithms via through AWS Lambda within the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
Technical details
You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.
Step 1
The AWS CloudFormation template deploys an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve the Simple File Manager web UI.
Step 2
An Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) web source bucket hosts the CloudFront distribution.
Step 3
An Amazon Cognito user pool provides a user directory.
Step 4
A Cognito identity pool provides federation with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for authentication and authorization to the web UI.
Step 5
An Amazon API Gateway file manager REST API proxies file system operations from the web UI to your Amazon EFS file system. IAM roles are created for the API to operate.
Step 6
An AWS Lambda API handler function supports the file manager API.
Step 7
A Lambda file manager function connects to the EFS file system.
Note: The Lambda file manager function is not automatically deployed by this solution’s CloudFormation template. Create this resource post deployment.
Step 8
An EFS access point allows EFS file system access from Lambda.
Note: The EFS access point is not automatically deployed by this solution’s CloudFormation template. Create this resource post deployment.
Step 1
The AWS CloudFormation template deploys an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve the Simple File Manager web UI.
Step 2
An Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) web source bucket hosts the CloudFront distribution.
Step 3
An Amazon Cognito user pool provides a user directory.
Step 4
A Cognito identity pool provides federation with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for authentication and authorization to the web UI.
Step 5
An Amazon API Gateway file manager REST API proxies file system operations from the web UI to your Amazon EFS file system. IAM roles are created for the API to operate.
Step 6
An AWS Lambda API handler function supports the file manager API.
Step 7
A Lambda file manager function connects to the EFS file system.
Note: The Lambda file manager function is not automatically deployed by this solution’s CloudFormation template. Create this resource post deployment.
Step 8
An EFS access point allows EFS file system access from Lambda.
Note: The EFS access point is not automatically deployed by this solution’s CloudFormation template. Create this resource post deployment.
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