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EFS should be independent of lifecycle of elasticbean environment

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The [tutorial for Deploying a High-Availability WordPress Website](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/php-hawordpress-tutorial.html) talks about creating an RDS instance external to the elasticbean. The tutorial uses an EFS that is created using [efs-mount in .ebextensions](https://github.com/awslabs/eb-php-wordpress/blob/8e5a386b56923443fd35ad9824db87f99faace64/.ebextensions/efs-create.config#L1) and is symlinked to ``wp-content/uploads``. The ``uploads`` directory in wordpress is used to store the media files.

Since this EFS volume is created through elasticbean, what this means is that if the EB is terminated, the files stored on ``uploads`` are deleted as well. The intent is that the ``uploads`` directory has non-ephemeral files that need to shared across all the instances. Deleting the files when the instance terminates is counter to this intent.

To be consistent, I think both the EFS and RDS should be created outside the elasticbean environment.

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