Mounting disks to EC2 instances and Elastic Volumes
- Activity:
- Create an ubuntu ec2 instance
- Create an Windows 2016 Server
- Now lets create an ebs volume from the snapshot created in the last class in Availability zone us-west-2b
- Now lets attach this to ec2 instance
- Now lets try to login into ec2 instance and create a mount point for the volume attached
- Now lets make mount permenant by adding the entry into /etc/fstab
- Login into Windows Server
- Lets create a 1GB disk and attach it to the windows server
- Please follow the recording of the classroom for steps
- In AWS EBS Volumes are referred as Elastic Volumes:
- When EBS was launched, if you had to increase the size of the EBS Volumes, you had to stop the ec2 instance and then increase the size, start the machine then new size would be reflected in OS
- Later AWS introduced Elastic Volumes, where when you increase the size of disk, it will made available to the EC2 instance without need for restart. For Using that expanded space you need to execute the OS instructions to make the space available.
