Using other storage services

Two other storage services can be used with SageMaker: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) https://aws.amazon.com/efs) and Amazon FSx for Lustre (https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre).

Note:

This section requires a little bit of AWS knowledge on VPCs, subnets, and security groups. If you're not familiar at all with these, I'd recommend reading the following:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html

Working with SageMaker and Amazon EFS

EFS is a managed storage service compatiblewith NFS v4. It lets you create volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances and SageMaker instances. This is a convenient way to share data, and you can use it to scale I/O for large training jobs.

By default, files are stored in the Standard class. You can enable a life cycle policy that automatically moves files that haven't been accessed for a certain...