In this blog you will Learn how to attach EBS vloume to EC2 instance

• Go to EC2 dashboard > volumes

• Here you can see I have two volumes already created to create another new volume click create volume.

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  Select your volume type. what space you require for your storage in GiB.

• Availability zone - Check your instance from which Availability zone and then create for example if your instance belongs from us-east-1e but you are creating volume in us-east-1a you can not connect your instance to this volume.

• Snapshot ID - If you already created snapshot create with it.

• tags - Labels

• Click on create Volume

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• Volume is created now it's time to connect with your instance.

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• volume is created in this region us-east-1e.

• before attaching new volume I will show how many storage volumes connected with instance.

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• Here xvda and xvdb is connected to instance. lsblk is command to check how many volumes is connected with instance.

• Lets connect another volume to the instance.

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• After connecting successfully you can see extra volume is name with xvdf is connected.

• Before using volume to create partition format it must.

• sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf

• Give file allocation so we can move or copy data from the volume.

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• volume is mounted.

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• To unmount volume from the instance.