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AccessPointDescription

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AccessPointDescription - Amazon Elastic File System

Provides a description of an EFS file system access point.

Contents

AccessPointArn

The unique Amazon Resource Name (ARN) associated with the access point.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^arn:aws[-a-z]*:elasticfilesystem:[0-9a-z-:]+:access-point/fsap-[0-9a-f]{8,40}$

Required: No

AccessPointId

The ID of the access point, assigned by Amazon EFS.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^(arn:aws[-a-z]*:elasticfilesystem:[0-9a-z-:]+:access-point/fsap-[0-9a-f]{8,40}|fsap-[0-9a-f]{8,40})$

Required: No

ClientToken

The opaque string specified in the request to ensure idempotent creation.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: .+

Required: No

FileSystemId

The ID of the EFS file system that the access point applies to.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^(arn:aws[-a-z]*:elasticfilesystem:[0-9a-z-:]+:file-system/fs-[0-9a-f]{8,40}|fs-[0-9a-f]{8,40})$

Required: No

LifeCycleState

Identifies the lifecycle phase of the access point.

Type: String

Valid Values: creating | available | updating | deleting | deleted | error

Required: No

Name

The name of the access point. This is the value of the Name tag.

Type: String

Required: No

OwnerId

Identifies the AWS account that owns the access point resource.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 14.

Pattern: ^(\d{12})|(\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4})$

Required: No

PosixUser

The full POSIX identity, including the user ID, group ID, and secondary group IDs on the access point that is used for all file operations by NFS clients using the access point.

Type: PosixUser object

Required: No

RootDirectory

The directory on the EFS file system that the access point exposes as the root directory to NFS clients using the access point.

Type: RootDirectory object

Required: No

Tags

The tags associated with the access point, presented as an array of Tag objects.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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