EFS(Elastic File Sysytem)

• Launched an EC2 instance on aws, used http sever to lauch a simple website.
• Stored the static part of website code in s3 bucket and used cloudfront to access it.
• Used Efs for storage so that even after the Ec2 instance crashes the code of website intact .
• We can launch another instance and attach The Efs storage to get our data back.

Installation

• Download aws cli

• Download Terraform

• To login to aws from Cli

aws configure

It will ask the secret key, access key and the region.The access and secret key can be obtained from Aws dashboard.

• Install terraform and make a profile in aws so as to not expose our secret key

aws configure --profile sahil

It will ask for secret key and access key.

• Initialize a folder with

terraform init

• Run the below command to run the code

terraform apply --auto-approve

• To destroy the setup run

terraform destroy --auto-approve