EBS Hands OnΒΆ
If we go to EC2 and inspect our instance, under the storage tab, we'll see that it has a root device with a type of EBS volume.
Also there is a section Block devices that will lost all attached storages. Currently we only have the root device.
We can also go to EC2 -> Elastic Block Store -> Volumes and create a new volume.
We are going to create a 2 GB General purpose storage in the same availability zone that our ec2 instance is located in.
Now we'll see 2 volumes in our list - one is in use (the root volume) and one that is available (the one we created just now).
We can now attach our volume to the EC2 instance by right-clicking.
Now under the instance, we'll see both of these volumes:
