Mounting EBS or EFS as File System in on Premise Instances

Question

I have used the open source[ s3fs](https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse) for mounting s3 buckets in a local directory. Are there similar open source solutions for EBS or EFS? Most of the guides I see seem to assume that I am using an EC2 with the appropriate security group setting, but I need it to be on my own VM or laptop (running Ubuntu).

Answer

[This walkthrough](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/efs-onpremises.html) uses the AWS Management Console to create and mount a file system on an on-premises client. You do so using either an AWS Direct Connect connection or a connection on an AWS Virtual Private Network (AWS 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. See reference [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-mount-helper-direct.html)

EBS cannot be mounted on-premises but can be used to take back up of data as EBS snapshots

Mounting EBS or EFS as File System in on Premise Instances

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