EC2

Mount an S3 file system on Amazon EC2 using amazon-efs-utils v3.0.0+ and the mount -t s3files command. Access the instance through SSM Session Manager — no SSH key pair or bastion host is required.

Complete Setup before starting here.

Launch & Install Launch an Amazon Linux 2023 instance with the S3 Files compute role, install amazon-efs-utils, and connect via SSM.

Mount Create the mount point and mount the file system at /mnt/s3files using mount -t s3files.

Verify Confirm the mount with df and findmnt, then write a test file and verify it appears in S3.