In this how-to guide, you will learn how to modify an EBS volume type, which we will demonstrate by upgrading an attached magnetic EBS volume to a PIOPS/General Purpose SSD EBS volume.

An Example Use Case

Environment Details

Region: US-East (Northern Virginia) Operating System: Linux and Windows

Step by Step

1. Identify the magnetic EBS volume attached to your instance

2. Create a snapshot of your EBS volume

3. Track the progress of your EBS snapshot

4. Create a new PIOPS/General Purpose SSD volume from your EBS snapshot

5. Detaching an existing attached magnetic volume from the instance

6. Attach a new PIOPS/General Purpose SSD volume

Instance ID: The instance to which the volume should be attached. Device: The attachment point for this EBS volume. This should be the same as the magnetic volume. In this case, it is /dev/xvda.

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