EFS / Client / describe_file_systems

describe_file_systems#

EFS.Client.describe_file_systems(**kwargs)#

Returns the description of a specific Amazon EFS file system if either the file system CreationToken or the FileSystemId is provided. Otherwise, it returns descriptions of all file systems owned by the caller’s Amazon Web Services account in the Amazon Web Services Region of the endpoint that you’re calling.

When retrieving all file system descriptions, you can optionally specify the MaxItems parameter to limit the number of descriptions in a response. This number is automatically set to 100. If more file system descriptions remain, Amazon EFS returns a NextMarker, an opaque token, in the response. In this case, you should send a subsequent request with the Marker request parameter set to the value of NextMarker.

To retrieve a list of your file system descriptions, this operation is used in an iterative process, where DescribeFileSystems is called first without the Marker and then the operation continues to call it with the Marker parameter set to the value of the NextMarker from the previous response until the response has no NextMarker.

The order of file systems returned in the response of one DescribeFileSystems call and the order of file systems returned across the responses of a multi-call iteration is unspecified.

This operation requires permissions for the elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems action.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.describe_file_systems(
    MaxItems=123,
    Marker='string',
    CreationToken='string',
    FileSystemId='string'
)
Parameters:

  • MaxItems (integer) – (Optional) Specifies the maximum number of file systems to return in the response (integer). This number is automatically set to 100. The response is paginated at 100 per page if you have more than 100 file systems.

  • Marker (string) – (Optional) Opaque pagination token returned from a previous DescribeFileSystems operation (String). If present, specifies to continue the list from where the returning call had left off.

  • CreationToken (string) – (Optional) Restricts the list to the file system with this creation token (String). You specify a creation token when you create an Amazon EFS file system.

  • FileSystemId (string) – (Optional) ID of the file system whose description you want to retrieve (String).

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'Marker': 'string',
    'FileSystems': [
        {
            'OwnerId': 'string',
            'CreationToken': 'string',
            'FileSystemId': 'string',
            'FileSystemArn': 'string',
            'CreationTime': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
            'LifeCycleState': 'creating'|'available'|'updating'|'deleting'|'deleted'|'error',
            'Name': 'string',
            'NumberOfMountTargets': 123,
            'SizeInBytes': {
                'Value': 123,
                'Timestamp': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
                'ValueInIA': 123,
                'ValueInStandard': 123
            },
            'PerformanceMode': 'generalPurpose'|'maxIO',
            'Encrypted': True|False,
            'KmsKeyId': 'string',
            'ThroughputMode': 'bursting'|'provisioned'|'elastic',
            'ProvisionedThroughputInMibps': 123.0,
            'AvailabilityZoneName': 'string',
            'AvailabilityZoneId': 'string',
            'Tags': [
                {
                    'Key': 'string',
                    'Value': 'string'
                },
            ]
        },
    ],
    'NextMarker': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) –

    • Marker (string) –

      Present if provided by caller in the request (String).

    • FileSystems (list) –

      An array of file system descriptions.

      • (dict) –

        A description of the file system.

        • OwnerId (string) –

          The Amazon Web Services account that created the file system.

        • CreationToken (string) –

          The opaque string specified in the request.

        • FileSystemId (string) –

          The ID of the file system, assigned by Amazon EFS.

        • FileSystemArn (string) –

          The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the EFS file system, in the format arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:region:account-id:file-system/file-system-id ``. Example with sample data: ``arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-west-2:1111333322228888:file-system/fs-01234567

        • CreationTime (datetime) –

          The time that the file system was created, in seconds (since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).

        • LifeCycleState (string) –

          The lifecycle phase of the file system.

        • Name (string) –

          You can add tags to a file system, including a Name tag. For more information, see CreateFileSystem. If the file system has a Name tag, Amazon EFS returns the value in this field.

        • NumberOfMountTargets (integer) –

          The current number of mount targets that the file system has. For more information, see CreateMountTarget.

        • SizeInBytes (dict) –

          The latest known metered size (in bytes) of data stored in the file system, in its Value field, and the time at which that size was determined in its Timestamp field. The Timestamp value is the integer number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. The SizeInBytes value doesn’t represent the size of a consistent snapshot of the file system, but it is eventually consistent when there are no writes to the file system. That is, SizeInBytes represents actual size only if the file system is not modified for a period longer than a couple of hours. Otherwise, the value is not the exact size that the file system was at any point in time.

          • Value (integer) –

            The latest known metered size (in bytes) of data stored in the file system.

          • Timestamp (datetime) –

            The time at which the size of data, returned in the Value field, was determined. The value is the integer number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

          • ValueInIA (integer) –

            The latest known metered size (in bytes) of data stored in the Infrequent Access storage class.

          • ValueInStandard (integer) –

            The latest known metered size (in bytes) of data stored in the Standard storage class.

        • PerformanceMode (string) –

          The performance mode of the file system.

        • Encrypted (boolean) –

          A Boolean value that, if true, indicates that the file system is encrypted.

        • KmsKeyId (string) –

          The ID of an KMS key used to protect the encrypted file system.

        • ThroughputMode (string) –

          Displays the file system’s throughput mode. For more information, see Throughput modes in the Amazon EFS User Guide.

        • ProvisionedThroughputInMibps (float) –

          The amount of provisioned throughput, measured in MiB/s, for the file system. Valid for file systems using ThroughputMode set to provisioned.

        • AvailabilityZoneName (string) –

          Describes the Amazon Web Services Availability Zone in which the file system is located, and is valid only for file systems using One Zone storage classes. For more information, see Using EFS storage classes in the Amazon EFS User Guide.

        • AvailabilityZoneId (string) –

          The unique and consistent identifier of the Availability Zone in which the file system’s One Zone storage classes exist. For example, use1-az1 is an Availability Zone ID for the us-east-1 Amazon Web Services Region, and it has the same location in every Amazon Web Services account.

        • Tags (list) –

          The tags associated with the file system, presented as an array of Tag objects.

          • (dict) –

            A tag is a key-value pair. Allowed characters are letters, white space, and numbers that can be represented in UTF-8, and the following characters: `` + - = . _ : /``.

            • Key (string) –

              The tag key (String). The key can’t start with aws:.

            • Value (string) –

              The value of the tag key.

    • NextMarker (string) –

      Present if there are more file systems than returned in the response (String). You can use the NextMarker in the subsequent request to fetch the descriptions.

Exceptions

  • EFS.Client.exceptions.BadRequest

  • EFS.Client.exceptions.InternalServerError

  • EFS.Client.exceptions.FileSystemNotFound

Examples

This operation describes all of the EFS file systems in an account.

response = client.describe_file_systems(
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'FileSystems': [
        {
            'CreationTime': datetime(2016, 12, 15, 22, 38, 44, 3, 350, 0),
            'CreationToken': 'tokenstring',
            'FileSystemId': 'fs-01234567',
            'LifeCycleState': 'available',
            'Name': 'MyFileSystem',
            'NumberOfMountTargets': 1,
            'OwnerId': '012345678912',
            'PerformanceMode': 'generalPurpose',
            'SizeInBytes': {
                'Value': 6144,
            },
            'Tags': [
                {
                    'Key': 'Name',
                    'Value': 'MyFileSystem',
                },
            ],
        },
    ],
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}