Chose Elastic File Storage over EBS (Elastic Block Storage) because the latter can only be mounted into a single node. This adds the RBAC config and deployment for managing EFS mounts within the cluster. Largely depends on this efs-provisioner config: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage/tree/master/aws/efs The config has been hard-copied into the repo and updated for future reference. Note that the config requires an environment variable substitution and cannot be applied directly to the cluster.