How to Create an Amazon EBS Volume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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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.

[Note] Note

You can also create and attach Amazon EBS volumes when launching instances.

AWS Management Console

To create an Amazon EBS volume

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab.

  2. Click Volumes in the Navigation pane.

    The console displays a list of current volumes.

  3. Click Create Volume.

    The Create Volume dialog box appears.

  4. Configure the following settings and click Create.

    • Size of the volume (in GiB)

    • Availability Zone in which to launch the instance

    • The ID of the snaphsot from which you are launching the volume (optional)

    Amazon EC2 begins creating the volume.

Command Line Tools

To create an Amazon EBS volume

  1. Enter the following command.

    PROMPT>  ec2-create-volume --size 800 --zone us-east-1a

    Amazon EBS returns information about the volume similar to the following example.

    VOLUME vol-4d826724 800 us-east-1a available 2008-02-14T00:00:00+0000

  2. To check whether the volume is ready, use the following command.

    PROMPT>  ec2-describe-volumes vol-4d826724

    Amazon EBS returns information about the volume similar to the following example.

    VOLUME  vol-4d826724 800 us-east-1a  available 2008-07-29T08:49:25+0000
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