How to Create an Amazon EBS Volume
To use Amazon EBS, you first create a volume that can be attached to any Amazon EC2 instance within the same Availability Zone. This example creates an 800 GiB Amazon EBS volume.
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You can also create and attach Amazon EBS volumes when launching instances. |
How To
To create an Amazon EBS volume
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If you are using SOAP, construct the following request:
<CreateVolume xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/"> <size>
size
</size> <availabilityZone>zone
</availabilityZone> </CreateVolume> -
If you are using Query, construct the following request:
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=CreateVolume &Size=
size
&AvailabilityZone=zone
&...auth parameters... -
View output similar to the following:
<CreateVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/"> <volumeId>vol-4d826724</volumeId> <size>800</size> <status>creating</status> <createTime>2008-05-07T11:51:50.000Z</createTime> <availabilityZone>us-east-1a</availabilityZone> <snapshotId></snapshotId> </CreateVolumeResponse>