AWS EBS Exercises – DevOps and Cloud Blog

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Login to AWS Console
Create an Windows EC2 instance or you can use an existing EC2 instance.
Go to left panel of the EC2 AWS Console and select the “Elastic Block Store-> Volumes” Option
Create the volume and select the parameters given below image.
- Select Volume type as General Purpose SSD (gp2)
- Volume size given as 1 GiB (minimum size provided for demo purpose
- Select the Availability Zone where your EC2 instance launched. Here I have selected ‘ap-south-1’ as my instance is running in ‘ap-south-1’ Az.
Once your volume is created, you can attach to you EC2 instance. Click on “Actions -> Attach Volume” to attach the volume to EC2 Instance.

From the Instance edit box, click and select your EC2 instance to add this volume. Only instances in the same Availability Zone as the selected volume are displayed.
Select Attach button to add the volume to your Instance. Now The volume has been added. You can verify the same in your Windows Instance.
Connect to Windows Instance and Open File Explorer. You may not see your latest attached volume. You can refer and study more about volume mapping.
You can Open the Windows ‘Disk Management‘ by typing disk partitions as shown below. You can manually map there.
You can also run the below script from the instance to map the volume automatically.
Go to the location “C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Scripts” and run the ‘InitializeDisks’ powershell file. The script will do the job. Now the new drive will mapped to your EC2 Instance.

AWS EBS Exercises