Attaching storage

Ideally, you will have defined all your storage requirements (disk size, IOPs, and so on) up-front as code using a service such as CloudFormation. However, sometimes, that isn't possible due to application restrictions or changing requirements.

You can easily add additional storage to your instances while they are running by attaching a new volume.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the following:

• A running instance's ID. It will start with i-, followed by alphanumeric characters.
• The AZ the instance is running in. This looks like the region name with a letter after it; for example, us-east-1a.

In this recipe, we are using an Amazon Linux 2 instance. If you are using a different operating...