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Version: On-Premise 2.1

AWS Create Volume

Activity Description​

Creates a new Amazon Web Service volume.

Output​

The ID of the new volume.

Settings​

  • Module Name – The name of the AWS module to be used.
  • Region – The region in which the instance resides.
    Example: ap-northeast-1
  • Snapshot Name/Id – The snapshot name or ID from which to create the volume.
  • Availability Zone – The Availability Zone in which to create the volume.
    Example: us-east-1a
  • Volume Type – The volume type can be gp2 for General Purpose SSD, io1 for Provisioned IOPS SSD, st1 for Throughput Optimized HDD, sc1 for Cold HDD, or standard for Magnetic volumes. If no volume type is specified, the default is standard in us-east-1, eu-west-1, eu-central-1, us-west-2, us-west-1, sa-east-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-south-1, us-gov-west-1, and cn-north-1. In all other Regions, EBS defaults to gp2.
  • Size (GB) – The size of the volume, in GiBs.
  • IO per Second – The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) to provision for the volume, with a maximum ratio of 50 IOPS/GiB. Range is 100 to 64,000 IOPS for volumes in most Regions. Maximum IOPS of 64,000 is guaranteed only on Nitro-based instances. Other instance families guarantee performance up to 32,000 IOPS. For more information, see Amazon EBS Volume Types in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
  • Encrypted – Specifies whether the volume should be encrypted. The effect of setting the encryption state to truedepends on the volume origin (new or from a snapshot), starting encryption state, ownership, and whether encryption by default is enabled. For more information, see Encryption by Default in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
  • KMS Key Id – The identifier of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) to use for Amazon EBS encryption. If this parameter is not specified, your AWS managed CMK for EBS is used. If KmsKeyId is specified, the encrypted state must be true.
  • Override Connection Parameters – Used to create a new volume on a different AWS account, instead of the original default account saved under the AWS module.
  • Access Key – If overriding the connection parameters set at the module level, enter a different access key here.
  • Secret Key – If overriding the connection parameters set at the module level, enter a different secret key here.
  • Token – If overriding the connection parameters set at the module level, enter a different token here.