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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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In this recipe, we start by creating a volume. Volumes are created from snapshots. If you do not specify a snapshot ID it uses a blank snapshot, and you get a blank volume.

While volumes are hosted redundantly, they are only hosted in a single AZ, so must be provisioned in the same AZ the instance is running in.

The create-volume command returns a response that includes the newly created volume's VolumeId. We then use this ID in the next step.

It can sometimes take a few seconds for a volume to become available. If you are scripting these commands, use the aws ec2 wait command to wait for the volume to become available.

In step 3, we attach a volume to the instance. When attaching to an instance, you must specify the name ...

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