How to attach a volume to an instance in AWS

Question

Hi Team,

I have one instance running in AWS. I want to attach a volume to the instance from the command line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can attach an EBS volume to a running or stopped instance and exposes it to the instance with the specified device name. The following example command attaches a volume to an instance as /dev/sdf.

$ aws ec2 attach-volume --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0 --instance-id i-01474ef662b89480 --device /dev/sdf