Attach an EBS volume Created to EC2 Instance using AWS-CLI
EBS means elastic block storage. It is like a storage that can be used as pendrive for your ec2 instance. One volume is created when you launch an instance.
To Create an ebs volume, Click
Now, After you have created an ebs volume or maybe having number of volumes. To list the number of volumes present use command
aws ec2 describe-volumes
Now, Select the volume id and keep it with you.
Another thing you need is Instance with which you want to connect it.
Use the below command to check available instances.
aws ec2 describe-instances
Now, copy the instance id of the instances and keep it with you.
Finally, you have to select a name for device. You can give anything to it.
For example -
/dev/sdf, /dev/anything, etc.
It is just a string.
Command to attach an ebs volume to ec2 instance.
aws ec2 attach-volume --volume-id volumeId --instance-id instanceId --device /dev/string
This will attach your ebs volume to Ec2 Instance.
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