ec2-create-volume

Syntax

ec2-create-volume [--size size | --snapshot snapshot] --availability-zone zone

Creates an Amazon EBS volume of a size you specify or from a snapshot.

	Note
	You must specify an availability zone when creating a volume. The volume and the instance to which it attaches must be in the same availability zone.

Option Description Required

Option	Description	Required
--size `size`	The size of the Amazon EBS volume, in GiB. Required if you are not creating a volume from a snapshot. Example: 800	Conditional
--snapshot `snapshot`	The snapshot from which to create the new volume. Required if you do not specify a volume size. Example: `snap-78a54011`	Conditional
--availability-zone `zone`	The availability zone in which to create the new volume. Example: `us-east-1a`	Yes

--size size

The size of the Amazon EBS volume, in GiB. Required if you are not creating a volume from a snapshot.

Example: 800

Conditional

--snapshot snapshot

The snapshot from which to create the new volume. Required if you do not specify a volume size.

Example: snap-78a54011

Conditional

--availability-zone zone

The availability zone in which to create the new volume.

Example: us-east-1a

Yes

Amazon EBS returns a table that contains the following information:

Amazon EBS displays errors on stderr.

This example creates a new 800 GiB volume in availability zone us-east-1a.

$ ec2-create-volume --size 800 --availability-zone us-east-1a
VOLUME vol-4d826724 800 us-east-1a creating 2008-02-14T00:00:00+0000