AttachVolume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-12-01

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AttachVolume

The AttachVolume operation attaches an Amazon EBS volume to a running instance. For more information about Amazon EBS, see Amazon Elastic Block Store.

Request Parameters

The following table describes the request parameters for AttachVolume. Parameter names are case sensitive.

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`VolumeId`	The ID of the Amazon EBS volume Type: String Default: none Valid Values: ID of a volume that you own Constraints: The volume and instance must be within the same Availability Zone and the instance must be running	Yes
`InstanceId`	The ID of the instance to which the volume attaches Type: String Default: none Valid Values: ID of an instance that you own Constraints: The volume and instance must be within the same Availability Zone and the instance must be running	Yes
`Device`	Specifies how the device is exposed to the instance (e.g., `/dev/sdh`). For information on standard storage locations, see Storage Locations. Type: String Default: none Valid Values: Valid device ID Constraints: The specified device ID cannot be in use by another device or an instance store	Yes

VolumeId

The ID of the Amazon EBS volume

Type: String

Default: none

Valid Values: ID of a volume that you own

Constraints: The volume and instance must be within the same Availability Zone and the instance must be running

Yes

InstanceId

The ID of the instance to which the volume attaches

Type: String

Default: none

Valid Values: ID of an instance that you own

Constraints: The volume and instance must be within the same Availability Zone and the instance must be running

Yes

Device

Specifies how the device is exposed to the instance (e.g., /dev/sdh). For information on standard storage locations, see Storage Locations.

Type: String

Default: none

Valid Values: Valid device ID

Constraints: The specified device ID cannot be in use by another device or an instance store

Yes

Response Elements

The following table describes the default response tags included in AttachVolume responses.

Name	Description
`volumeId`	The ID of the volume Type: xsd:string
`instanceId`	The ID of the instance Type: xsd:string
`device`	The device as it is exposed to the instance Type: xsd:string
`status`	Volume state (e.g., `attaching`, `attached`) Type: xsd:string
`attachTime`	Time stamp when the attachment was initiated Type: xsd:dateTime

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=AttachVolume
&VolumeId=vol-4d826724
&InstanceId=i-6058a509
&Device=/dev/sdh
&...auth parameters...

Sample Response

<AttachVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-12-01">
  <volumeId>vol-4d826724</volumeId>
  <instanceId>i-6058a509</instanceId>
  <device>/dev/sdh</device>
  <status>attaching</status>
  <attachTime>2008-05-07T11:51:50.000Z</attachTime>
</AttachVolumeResponse>

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