How to mount an EFS volume on AWS Sagemaker Studio

Question

I have tried to follow the normal (non-studio) documentation on mounting an EFS file system, as can be found here, however, these steps don't work in a studio notebook. Specifically, the sudo mount -t nfs ... does not work in both the Image terminal and the system terminal.

How do I mount an EFS file system that already exists to amazon Sagemaker, so I can access the data/ datasets I stored in them?

Answer 1

Update: I spoke to an AWS Solutions Architect, and he confirms that EFS is not supported on Sagemaker Studio.

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Workaround:

Instead of mounting your old EFS, you can mount the SageMaker studio EFS onto an EC2 instance, and copy over the data manually. You would need the correct EFS storage volume id, and you'll find your newly copied data available in Sagemaker Studio. I have not actually done this though.

To find the EFS id, look at the section "Manage your storage volume" here.