Amazon EBS, aka Elastic Block Store, is a storage service designed for use with Amazon EC2 instances for both general-purpose and intensive workloads at scale. EBS is very cost-effective and provides a highly available service offering for business-critical applications.

This lab introduces the EBS volumes and how you can increase the storage space of an existing EBS volume without losing the data on the volume. To do this, migrate your data to a larger volume, and then extend the file system on the volume to recognize the newly available space. After you verify that your new volume is working properly, you can delete the old volume.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this Lab, you should be able to:

• Create an EBS Snapshot
• Create an EBS Volume From a Snapshot
• Attach an EBS Volume as a root device

Prerequisites:

This is a beginner level lab, however, in order to follow the next steps you should be able to:

• Launch EC2 instances
• Connect to EC2 instances running Linux

We recommend these labs as prerequisites:

• Create Your First Amazon EC2 Instance (Linux)
• Managing Instance Volumes Using EBS

Updates 

October 30th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

September 6th, 2023 - Updated screenshots to reflect the latest UI

April 29th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI, and resolved lab set up issue

April 21st, 2021 - Refreshed the Content and Lab Steps to reflect changes in the AWS interface and the instructions

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation lab step to check the work you perform in the lab