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AWS EFS

3 CloudFormation resource types available for EFS.

AccessPoint

AWS::EFS::AccessPoint

The AWS::EFS::AccessPoint resource creates an EFS access point. An access point is an application-specific view into an EFS file system that applies an operating system user and group, and a file

FileSystem

AWS::EFS::FileSystem

The AWS::EFS::FileSystem resource creates a new, empty file system in EFSlong (EFS). You must create a mount target ([AWS::EFS::MountTarget](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/Us

MountTarget

AWS::EFS::MountTarget

The AWS::EFS::MountTarget resource is an Amazon EFS resource that creates a mount target for an EFS file system. You can then mount the file system on Amazon EC2 instances or other resources by us

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