Using storage volumes locally on Snow Family devices with AWS OpsHub - AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide

Using storage volumes locally on Snow Family devices with AWS OpsHub

Amazon EC2-compatible instances use Amazon EBS volumes for storage. In this procedure, you create a storage volume and attach it to your instance using AWS OpsHub.

To create a storage volume

  1. Open the AWS OpsHub application.

  2. In the Start computing section on the dashboard, choose Get started. Or, choose the Services menu at the top, and then choose Compute (EC2) to open the Compute page.

  3. Choose the Storage volumes tab. If you have storage volumes on your device, the details about the volumes appear under Storage volumes.

  4. Choose Create volume to open the Create volume page.

    Create Volume page

  5. Choose the device that you want to create the volume on, enter the size (in GiBs) that you want to create, and choose the type of volume.

  6. Choose Submit. The State is Creating, and changes to Available when done. You can see your volume and details about it in the Volumes tab.

To attach a storage volume to your instance

  1. Choose the volume that you created, and then choose Attach volume.

    Attach volume window showing Compute Instance Id and Volume Device Name

  2. For Compute instance Id, choose the instance you want to attach the volume to.

  3. For Volume Device Name, enter the device name of your volume (for example, /dev/sdh or xvdh).

  4. Choose Attach.

If you no longer need the volume, you can detach it from the instance and then delete it.