I am a begineer on setting up instances on Amazon EC2. Every time I create an instance, it is always created with a 10GB harddisk space. Is there a way to create an instance with a higher volume on EC2?
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I am a begineer on setting up instances on Amazon EC2. Every time I create an instance, it is always created with a 10GB harddisk space. Is there a way to create an instance with a higher volume on EC2?
You can set the size of the EBS root volume using the block device mapping options.
Depending on the AMI and Linux distro, you may need to run one of:
or
I wrote an article that describes how to do this with the command line tools:
This is also possible through the AWS console and API.